"I am afraid Muslim villagers have rioted and attacked local shops in response to last week's call by the Indonesian Ulemas Council for a jihad against speculators and hoarders of staple commodities in an effort to protect the country from political and economic pressures, " said Masdar Mas'udi, who heads the Indonesian Society for Peasantry and Community Development.
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In 1905, the National Bank of Egypt helped establish Ethiopia's first ever bank, The Bank of Abyssinia which operated as an affiliate of the NBE, it received a 50-year monopoly and was the Ethiopian government s fiscal agent as well as the sole issuer of notes and was responsible for collecting deposits and granting loans as well as trading in gold and silver, stockpiling staple commodities and investments.
