Another private currency model is time-backed currency, which has been spearheaded by liberal lawyer Edgar Cahn, former advisor to Robert Kennedy and Sargent Shriver.
Cahn reports there are nearly 300 TimeBanks in the U.S., another 300 in the United Kingdom, with TimeBanking now spread to another 34 countries internationally.
Its own report on its two main Indonesian suppliers was put together by an independent local firm, rather than a roving American, and its canny vice-president for human rights, Doug Cahn, visited Indonesia this week to check on how the changes were going.