Aceh and West Papua, which are growling for independence, and East Timor, which has already broken away, have felt the Indonesian army's boot more than most other parts of the country. But the two remaining growlers are different in another way, too. They are among a small group of Indonesian provinces which put far more money into the central government's pocket than they get back from it. Many other provinces break roughly even. Some, such as East and West Nusa Tenggara, would be even poorer than they are without the help they get from the centre. These economic differences have to be added to all the other sorts of diversity that criss-cross the map of Indonesia.
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