AN international meeting took place in Bali, two years ago. Agam Embun Sunarpati had gone ahead to find hotel accommodation for Boediono, at the time the Coordinating Minister for the Economy.

In Bali, Agam booked a room priced at Rp6 million a night. The budget ceiling for accommodation for ministers would allow Boediono to stay at a hotel priced at Rp6 million a night, and the event was to take place at that hotel, anyway.

Agam telephoned his