That's not true. Indonesia is a country where education can still give you an opportunity to lift yourself out of poverty. If you talk to people working in the

That's not true. Indonesia is a country where education can still give you an opportunity to lift yourself out of poverty. If you talk to people working in the city, you'll find many of them actually grew up in a village and climbed their way up into middle class through hard work and education. Yes, not everyone is lucky, but you can't dismiss it entirely given the proportion of middle class in Indonesia is going up steadily (around 12% per year according to some sources).