>>reporter: multinational giant unilever makes a wide variety of household, personal and food products at eight factories in indonesia. the attractions for manufacturers like unilever are clear: a vast population of 240 million, nearly half of them under the age of 30. a middle class growingat a raten a year. and natural resources close at hand. >>manwani: "we have consistently grown over the last decade or more at double digits, in fact strongdouble digits, so it's a fast growing business. it's also a business that has grown competitively,in other words we've not just grown, we've grown market share. and more importantly it's also a very profitable business. so i think from that point of view i would say it's pretty much a jewel business for our company." >>reporter: unilever is set to invest 350 million dollars over the next two years to expand its production. the company sees stability and strong macro-economic management as key attractions. >>maelzer: those factors -- coupled with the government's efforts to make it easier to get investments approved - are clearly reaping benefits.

playing world of warcraft or a third or union job on my you know i'm i don't there they're doing unilever on federal the rationale for this is this is that these are most of these federal jobs are open shops people can choose to be a member of the union and pay the dues or not but they all get the same benefits so since you've got a bunch of people who are basically freeloading we're picking up the slow you don't have fields for these the simpler the simple easy alternative is to say ok we're going to go to close shops if you're fed up you're going to give it what it's doing is created this boogie it's monopoly were. government workers and the unionized ones and the people who run government the officials negotiating it's a cozy little cartel where they're working together using our dollars so the result is we've gone from two thousand and five to ten thousand and then we've gone from about seven thousand people in government making one hundred fifty thousand dollars a year to eighty two thousand people government making under fifty thousand dollars a year you who rely on government facts

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