Make our small space a better place to live

Opinion & Editorial – The Jakarta Post, 4 June 2002

Welcome to the world of the multinational corporation (MNC). This is the world where a cultural and economic tsunami has been roaring across the globe and replacing the spectacular diversity of human society with a Westernized version of the good life.

Whether you walk the streets of Paris, New York, Beijing, New Delhi, Canberra, Singapore or even here in Jakarta or Denpasar, the advancement of global economics practiced by most MNCs has introduced a level of commercial culture which is being McDonald’s-ized, in a distinctly homogeneous way.