Bali 2011: Millions and Millions

Indonezijska Rupija hitro postane zelo domača valuta. Milijon rupij je osemdeset evrov. Deset tisoč kar naenkrat postane ogromno denarja, sploh pri cenah, kjer za ta denar nekaj dobiš. In pri barantanju hitro pozabiš, da je to le osemdeset centov. Kjer je barantanje pričakovano, brez skrbi ceno prepolovite, a si zapomnite, da bo zadnja beseda njihova.

Prebivalstvo v Indoneziji šteje 240 milijonov. Je največja muslimanska država na svetu. V glavnem mestu Jakarta živi 10 milijonov ljudi, par milijonov jih vsak dan migrira v mesto na delo. Štiri milijone šteje prebivalstvo Balija. Si mislite, kako zelo so jih številke o Sloveniji zabavale?

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You can get used to Indonesian Rupia fairly quickly. One million Rupia is eighty euros or hundred dollars. Ten thousand becomes quite some money, specially when you can get something for it and you forget that quite often, when negotiating for a better price. Reduce the given price by half and let them have the last word. That is a Bali bargaining formula I learned.

Indonesia has 240 million population and it’s the largest Muslim country in the world. 10 million live in Jakarta and a few million people migrate to work to Jakarta every day. Bali has 4 million people. The fact that our country has only two million people, amused everybody.