INDONESIA 81 home. Japan's "success55 is not repeatable. There is not a single Third World country today whose economy has been allowed to develop on its own course, without the detrimental meddling of foreign interests. As a result of colonial-neocolonial exploitation, the economies of all the Third World countries have become so one-sidedly export-oriented that there is no basis upon which an integrated growth is possible. Consequently, even if capital could be acquired in sufficient magnitude (that is, by robbing others) it could not be ploughed ba'ck to generate any growth outside the export sector. As "export" means that of raw, or at best, of semi-processed materials in virtually all the Third World countries, growth in these countries is obviated by the manipulation of the international market through monopolistic price-fixing. Hence the capacity of the national economy of the Third World countries to develop is extremely low. As a result, the greater part of their earnings is nearly all used purely in consumption. But here too the Third World countries, at the end of. the line, fall victims to the capitalist exploitation, since the manufacture of most goods and services (such as banking) are again under the control of the advanced capitalist countries. Indonesia proves to be no exception to this rule. Robbing her neighbours (the East Timores® of their coffee and the Papuans of their concessionary rights to natural resources) does not make Indonesia "another Japan". Most of the loot in these cases went to pay for aggression hardware which are manufactured by the imperialist countries and the foreign bank deposits of Jakarta's elite. Likewise, the comparatively massive wealth which oil has created for Indonesia, particularly prior to the state company Pertamina's crash in 1975, has generated little economic activity outside that of the export of (more) oil and its by-products. All this shows that there is absolutely no chance whatsoever for any Third World country like Indonesia to "make it5' within the present framework of capitalist-dominated economy. It follows therefore that "progress" in the real sense of the word can be achieved only outside the capitalist framework, for "... once colonialism was under way and the dominant force in the world, it obliterated the chances of all its victims to pursue a similar course and guaranteed that, even if one dciy they might achieve equality, it would not be by the same path."14 In other words, only a socialist economic policy can help countries like Indonesia to break free from the yoke of perpetual and all-pervasive exploitation.