Subject: Re: Entering the cynicism quadrant.
Date: Nov 27, 2001 @ 18:34
Author: Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@h...> wrote:
> Whereas today, they learn their capital is only on loan from the
IMF or
> World Bank, and has to be repaid?
> How about all those Acehnese learning that their capital is
Jakarta, not
> Banda Aceh as it was in the nineteenth century when they were
independent?
> BW

Yes, but they're not detached from the part in which the capital is
situated (OK, there might have been a political tinge to my posting,
but the "Tremp on world scale" thing was the issue. At least for me).

Peter S.

PS I thought that Atjeh/Aceh's capital was called Koetaradja back
then.