Spring in Senayan

Corrupt legislators and their nefarious benefactors have built up a shadowy world of meetings in hotel coffee shops and laptop bags bursting with millions of rupiah.

October 1, 2002

They have a unique joke in the House of Representatives (DPR) in Senayan about fortune distribution. Legislators may be in a "lucrative" or "spring" commission, a clear reference to a spring as a source of money. This commission often deals with officials in the ministries of transportation, telecommunications, trade, energy, mines, and—of course—finance (including banking)

Another group is called the "commission of tears," which is not

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