Gold, Indonesia contribution to US welfare
United State (US) is well known as super power country in the world who is able to set the global policy which affect the life of many people such as in Middle East. The people in US may enjoy the consequence of their country’s achievement which reach high level of welfare and quality of life compared with those third countries. So, the US citizen deserve to be proud for those reasons. However, as product of high quality life, US people should not neglect the critical thinking how they can be at those levels. Therefore I want to share about the contribution of Indonesia as developing country to the welfare of US.
In Indonesia, there is gold mining in Papua Island started from 1981 with the name of Freeport which result in 25.8 million ounce of gold. The dominant shares of the mining company is belonging to US’s company which mean a huge commercial aspect flows to US. However, the most native people around the area refused the existence of the mining activity since they feel no significant welfare effect to their life, but negative effects come from the environmentally destruction instead. Moreover, most Indonesian people never know completely what the significant contribution of the gold mining to the development of their country compared with those high risk of environmental cases and life of the native people. In conclusion, Freeport gold mining offered the big issue which huge number of gold contributed more significant to US than that to Indonesia as the native owner of that gold. Moreover, the majority of Indonesians feel it looks like a new style of colonialism.