A Mean Money Laundering Machine?

Three documents have emerged to strongly suggest the institution at the heart of the latest Bulog scandal is one big piece of engineering by Golkar. Could it really be that this body was set up in 1997 specially to launder Golkar's ill-gotten political funds?

January 22, 2002

In the name of political compromise, the special committee on the latest Bulog scandal will not take place. Or probably not, anyway. A plenary meeting of the House of Representatives (DPR) on Monday this week looks likely to back down from setting one up. The committee would have questioned DPR speaker Akbar Tandjung over the issuance of Rp40 billion in money from Bulog, the State Logistics Agency, in 1999 when he was state secretary. There are s

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