Kitchens on stilts – and soaring debt


Future in limbo: Students participating in a classroom activity led by a teacher at an elementary school in Torosiaje. — Reuters

Loan sharks are circling a kitchen that stands on stilts above the waters of Tomini Bay, off the coast of Sulawesi island in the remote fishing village of Torosiaje.

The kitchen, which cost 1.8 billion rupiah (RM411,345), was built under a government plan to incentivise investors to help provide the massive infrastructure needed for President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship initiative to deliver free meals to 83 million Indonesians, including school children and pregnant and breastfeeding women.

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