HE is known as the king of imported meat. Almost all government officials, from those in the Agriculture Ministry to Tanjung Priok Port authorities know him. “Anything to do with meat, he’s the one,” one port official told Tempo last week. He controls at least four meat importers. His import quota generally exceeds those given to other businessmen.

That man is Basuki Hariman. A former deputy chairman of the Indonesian Meat Importers Associ