THE name once appeared in a controversy over IVs for hospitals in 2007. At the time, Ribka Tjiptaning Proletariyati, the name given to this 51-year-old woman, was loudly demanding that the government withdraw IV equipment produced by PT Otsuka Indonesia. According to Ribka, who was the House of Representatives (DPR) Health Commission chairperson, the Japanese-made IVs were produced with unsterile materials. Later on, an investigation by this maga