Red Tape at Manggala
Activists are looking into reports that the land-use licensing process at the Forestry Ministry is brokered by National Mandate Party functionaries as a source of tactical funds for the minister and his party.
June 29, 2011
ACCORDING to Ali Taher Parasong, a special staff of the Forestry Minister, sacred verses are a part of doing business. He can recite quite fluently Verse 83, Chapter 2 of the Qur’an when he solicits donations for the poor. “In your good fortune, lie the rights of others,” said Ali, an activist from Muhammadiyah, an Islamic mass organization.
Ali was not delivering a sermon. He was at the fourth floor of the Forestry Ministry in Jakarta, me
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