Pinang became one of the economic supporting commodities of society when Indonesia was hit by monetary crisis in 1997/1998. we know during the mineter crisis, many big companies in the country are out of business, banks are closed and businessmen are losing money.
Even the country's economy was shaken at the time of the monetary crisis. However, people in rural areas who have commodity areca and commodities laennya not feel the monetary crisis shake at that time bhkan farmers praised bj Habibi who became president at the time was replacing the new order regime that fell at that time.
Because pinang price increases 10-fold in comparison with the previous period.
