In an utopic Indonesia, the current protest against the fuel price hike would not happen. Unfortunately, Indonesia is far from an utopia. It's even closer to a dystopia perhaps. People would understand that the cut in the fuel subsidy is necessary. The government is spending around US$16 billion to subsidise fuel and looking at the oil price hike, it's going to be around US$30 billion. Don't people realise that the government is running bankrupt and they have to cut the subsidy. Then again, if we are talking about an utopia, it won't happened in the first place, isn't it? But I wonder whether the protesters know that their protest is, at the very end, useless. Is it just venting their frustration?

Erick and I jokingly thought the protesters were being paid by opposition party considering the coming election. Now, I wonder whether it's really just a joke or not.