economic growth in Indonesia, reaching 6.1 percent in 2010. The per capita income has also increased quite reached more than 3000 dollars a year.

The poverty rate and unemployment rate also fell. A range of other data showing that our economy has improved.

But why point the public perception of various surveys that the situation more difficult. Dissatisfaction with the performance of government in the economy is growing too.

Why suppliers are increasingly multiply in large cities? Why is rampant racket? Why more and more Indonesian workers are forced to speculate in foreign countries, and even human lives at stake?

There might be something wrong with the development of external form shows improvement. Improvements have also been of dubious quality. If only the economic growth of sufficient quality, it does not seem much of anomalies or contradictions.

One of the main causes of poor growth is corruption. Corrupt practices in all areas of life leads to delayed investment growth. Entrepreneurs need more money to run their businesses.

In the era of New Order, we believe that the level of corruption is very difficult, the employer or are able to benefit because of competition from abroad is limited benefit from various forms of protection.

Corruption also causes poor infrastructure. Pump up the value of projects and cutting basic standards in the contract making the necessary construction quality is very bad, so quickly broken.

Very easy to find the evidence in plain view: Potholes simply and in a puddle, a special bus route TransJakarta processed and public buildings. The cost of maintenance is so expensive that the budget cost more to distribute to the poor.

There seems no exaggeration if we still believe that the greatest source of tax leakage. As the ratio of tax revenue and the gross domestic product (tax rate) has declined over the past two years compared to five years in a row.

With declining tax revenues, the government’s role to serve vulnerable people. The share of government expenditure to gross domestic product would not go to 10 percent. Indeed be achieved, in a very liberal country like the United States, but the servings to 20 percent.

Do not give up economic activity in the market mechanism requires the presence of an enhanced role of the state, can be protected, particularly in the creation of safety nets for vulnerable market.

Safety nets and embedded market is made in the market system. Funds for them elsewhere if they are not taxes, a tool for distributing revenue from the poor more power.

If this continues, allowing the driest state budget for the people. The signs began to appear. In 2010, we are already experiencing a deficit in the primary balance (revenue minus government spending outside of interest payments). primary deficit for the first time this has happened in the past 10 years.

Impact of increasingly sterile state budget weaken the government’s ability to generate new funds in the sectors should have priority, such as agriculture or rural injected. How might want to escape poverty, if this is indeed the foundation of poverty in rural areas, nearly two thirds of the poor in the village, they never seriously affected.

Especially in the agricultural sector will put increasing pressure due to the contribution of the manufacturing sector as a weight-cons will continue to decline. Unencumbered by the election of job seekers is back to agriculture or pushed into the informal sector. Therefore, informal workers have increased significantly, by about 70 percent of working people. Without doubt, it was an opportunity for growth, quality jobs.

In addition, growth is not qualified for almost half the population vulnerable to the economic crisis. Just a little food prices rose almost makes people so poor, really poor, no longer able to obtain the minimum necessary part of life: 2100 calories per capita per day of service plus a basic education and basic health care.

If only the reduction of poverty, the government could direct cash benefits, health services and free primary education. However, independence is not enough to stop it. What to do to fight against poverty, remove the roots of poverty.

Most say, is to create high quality jobs. There is no other choice but to strengthen agriculture, rural construction seriously, and to stimulate industrialization.

Surrender completely to market mechanisms are insufficient. The active role of government should be more advanced. With the fight against corruption, the role of the state would qualify. In addition, change the development paradigm, of course.

Do not poverty on earth Bung Karno Indonesia Merdeka said. The terms of the need to eradicate corruption. For as the UN slogan: “The cost of corruption, poverty, suffering people, and in the development of the whole world pays ..”