When Money Talks
Business tycoons are competing to fund presidential election campaignsa legal, but dangerous political game.
August 24, 2004
TYCOONS Prajogo Pangestu and Joko Tjandra are no longer missing in action. Once, they were on a list of suspects involved in corruption during the Suharto and Habibie eras. Today their names are listed among important contributors to the 2004 presidential election campaign.
Even in an era of democracy, politics, business and money are not to be found far apart. Businessmen in the United States as well as in Indonesia are unlikely to pass up an opp
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