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Article: Condominium. (Indonesia's population control policy)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- December 10, 1988
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FROM OUR SOUTH-EAST ASIA CORRESPONDENT JAKARTA PRESIDENT SUHARTO of Indonesia has received a "global statesman award in population" from the Population Institute, an American organisation that promotes family planning. The president has a large family, so does not qualify for a prize for his efforts in his own home. But his country is acclaimed as a great family-planning success by those who feel that population growth, like the loss of tropical rain forests, will destroy the world.
Something had to be done to reduce the number of new Indonesians. The island of Java is so crowded-it teems with more than 100m of the country's 170m people-that the government has ...