Enforcing honesty is a difficult task. Indonesia tries it in a different way.
The Times of India reports (19 June 2009)
A country not known for its transparent practices in business, politics and many other areas, Indonesia is pressing ahead in its
long-running anticorruption drive by opening up cashier-free “honesty cafes” across the archipelago.
During a break at a high school here one recent morning, Selica Erlindi, 15, a 10th grader who wants to be a pediatrician, picked a drink and a bag of spicy cassava chips from the local honesty cafe’s shelves. Then, in keeping with the cafe’s goal of nurturing probity among its customers and society at large, she deposited, on the honor system, the equivalent of 60 cents inside aclear plastic box.
As part of a national campaign, the provincial government here on the eastern shore of the island of Borneo opened a dozen honesty cafes last month alone in schools and government offices.
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