Fueling Fury

Political factions in the legislature engaged in a war of words on the fuel price increase. Golkar and PKS were duplicitous, and the government's chance to raise prices remains open.

April 4, 2012

An hour behind schedule, a meeting of coalition party representatives held at the office of the Joint Coalition Secretariat on Monday last week, began at 8pm. The meeting was led by Secretary of the Joint Secretariat Syariefuddin Hasan, a Democrat Party politician who is also the Cooperatives and Small/Medium Enterprises minister. He was accompanied by his colleague, Jafar Hafsah, at that time still faction chairman, Ignatius Moeljono and Teuku Ri

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