On the Credit Crisis: Why it has to be so UNFAIR?!

O, no, the crisis threat is getting real now.

While some too optimistic politicians said it would not severely hit us Indonesians as it has hit the developed world, now every body here, especially the businesses, are already anticipating for the real impacts of the stupid credit crisis to Indonesia.

The real threat for me is the very big possibility that I won't see raise in salaries next year. O, no...

It's just not fair. They have always raised salaries of the employees every year, at the beginning and the middle of every year to be exact, and I've been waiting for that since I was promoted to permanent staff from a trainee in February.

After being disappointed with no change in salaries this July; just because I was just being promoted several months before, I have expected to see the raise early next year.

But, hey, came then this stupid crisis, which has cruelly destroyed my hopes, making me wonder how can the rest of the world are so dependent to America that it collapses, too, when the latter collapses.

The other question is why the rest of the world didn't fairly grow, too, while the United States was growing?

And why while some of other countries are hit by economic, financial or whatsoever crisis, like Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries experienced in the late 1990s, America is not hit, too?

How unfair! How strange! Or am I too idiot to understand the mechanism of the global economy? Perhaps I am, otherwise I'm the only clever person alive in the world to ever inquire these questions.

Okay, I know that countries like Indonesia could be also affected by the crisis in US because US is one of our main export destinations. And as it is, too, Japan's main export destination, the crisis it has now transmitted to the Japanese subsequently transmitted us, too, with Japanese being our biggest export destination.

But, the question is, who has created this stupid global financial mechanism in which just because the economy of the US, the superpower, is slowing down, the rest of the world has to slow down, too, but the same thing doesn't apply vice versa.

O, I'm just an ordinary girl in this extraordinary world. And I can only keep on questioning without perhaps knowing why the world has to be so unfair...