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He walks over potentially one of the wealthiest countries in the world, though Indonesia's turbulant political history has so far prevented realization of its full economic capabilities. The Indonesian government receives considerable help - financial, technological, educational - from the Have Nations, almost to the point where they have come to expect it. This same attitude you'll meet with on the street when a man will ask you for a job or for money only because you appear richer than he. An old Indonesian proverb goes unheeded: 'He who gives rice for planting is greater than he who gives rice for eating. And he who teaches how to plant and grow rice is greater than either.'