Crooning for Campaign Funds

Presidential candidates are pulling in billions of rupiah in donations from special events. But not all of them succeed when many potential donors provide fake phone numbers.

June 15, 2004

IT'S not just antiques that are worth billions of rupiah. A song can also be as valuable, particularly when it is sung in the baritone voice of Golkar Party presidential candidate, General (ret) Wiranto. One particular song aired by this presidential hopeful was first auctioned at a fancy celebration attended by hundreds of well-known Indonesian politicians and business people.

It happened in the Mulia Hotel Ball Room, in mid-May. A grand stag

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