At the same time there is a growing determination to renegotiate the revenue-sharing system under which Jakarta has essentially looted natural resources from the islands.

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Baseball Commissioner Alan (Bud) Selig first imposed the revenue-sharing plan in 1993 as a way to fix baseball's broken economic system.

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Under the current labyrinthine system of tax-sharing, about half of the revenue raised by the central government goes to the provinces, which have little incentive to raise their own taxes or to manage spending prudently.

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