Passing BI and BCA in One Stroke

Selection of the BI Deputy Governors ended in an anticlimax. The coincidences have given rise to questions. Has the government in fact made a compromise while at the same time grabbing funds to cover the budget deficit?

December 18, 2001

WITH the selection of the three new Bank Indonesia (BI) Deputy Governors, it is just as if the government is in a rowing boat and has succeeded in passing two islands with only one stroke of its oars. The first “island” that the government has passed is the filling of the three BI deputy governor seats that were already floating when Abdurrahman Wahid’s government was still in power. Last week, Commission IX of the House of Repr

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