Spreading the Mega Message

Minister Laksamana Sukardi has reportedly mobilized the votes of SOE employees to help elect Megawati in the upcoming election. Will it prove effective?

August 24, 2004

OFFICE work was over for the day. But other activities had just begun at the Bank Mandiri Plaza, Jakarta, last Thursday evening. A hundred-odd luxury cars arrived to drop their passengers at the entrance to the building. The soft fragrance of perfume filled the lobby of the nations largest government-owned bank. That evening, the directors and commissioners of around 80 state-owned enterprises (SOEs) had arrived with their wives. They had come in

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