a little bit but don t forget about this. of dualism in the labor market as well because if you impose the minimum risk you want to get a benefit there s no one. labor market because you had an experience when we submit the labor law in any country with the highest severance payment in the world because we want. libor we want to protect if you want to fire people you have to pay probably what twenty four months you know what happened after that the industry that in fact shift from the labor intensive industry more into capital intensive includes releasing the inequality so when the government be signed a program we need to be very careful with this if you want to come up with the minimum wage you can afford and what about the people outside the labor market better to get a benefit or not let me give an example when you re talking about this you know. the public policy this is very difficult how to strike the balance let me give an
airport i think of a car and at the first traffic light i see a little girl say about seventy it is a little baby possibly a sibling begging for money that for me the contrast of coming from an affluent country and gentlemen to india every time is my image off inequality keeps me like a sledgehammer every time i go home so i cannot begin or if you feel your image of inequality starting with you now then what is your image of inequality. it s an interesting question there s many of those images in jakarta in my home city where you are confronted with day to day but i think for me personally what i would choose as my kind of image of inequality is i remember this one day where i saw about zero eight year old boy teach teaching his father how to use the driver app. and i think that for me is an image of inequality and by. being able to visualize the digital divide the digital literacy
as we ve seen an increase in public and private transport what we re also seeing new. also new young women feel increasingly unsafe. we have every single urban area in this region eighty percent of girls will say they never feel safe in public spaces. and so there s a there s that part of the inequality in gender when you don t even dare get on one of your taxis because you re worried about harassment and safety not traffic safety although i know that s a big preoccupation in this region but but but sort of personal dignity and integrity safety i think is is something that we have to keep in mind and the other thing that we re seeing with the growth of this phenomenal digital economy which also obviously gives opportunities to young women use the digital divide is growing so we are seeing massive new opportunities in technology but mostly for men
sector workers who were completely undervalued by society. and who could actually be doing some of the most high value economic activity but there was this issue of trust and intermediaries and i think that goes to my point about you know for me what i ve seen. inequality the biggest driver of inequality in my mind from what i ve seen in indonesia is the inability to establish trust between a variety so there s a huge economic cost a lack of trust as the first and second thing is there is a huge it cannot because of a lack of trust or lack of access there s a huge economic cost and structural inequality created by layering. before going to came these drivers were stuck to a particular location. that were not able to balance demand and supply having to pay a fee to whoever was the leader of that little area. before go food people
philippines but what they ve observed in the countries as they ve built out the internet backbone through the country there s more women that are joining the b.p.m. industry because families that were reluctant to let their daughter she move to urban centers now their daughters don t have to move to urban centers they don t have to move to know where that car. i don t fear in that kind of concern it s real they can stay in smaller you know we re not we re all necessarily but smaller urban areas where they re nearer to family where they re not they don t have to go very far so again i think it s just it s if we don t have that infrastructure investment that goes along side and that roll out of internet connectivity that goes alongside these these these these great new industries and new businesses you know we re going to see that divide growing so just sort of think underscores the need for continued investment focus on the area i think we also need to focus on what we can do to overcom