Time To SHUT Up Shop

The military says it is forced to run businesses due to its limited budget. Additional funds are raised from foundations. What are General Sutarto’s plans?

October 8, 2002

The Indonesian Military (TNI) has received some unpalatable news of late. Nothing to do with the “Battle of Binjai” that rocked a city and took a number of lives. And also a long way from the conflict that is occupying the soldiers in Ambon. Rather, this bad news concerns the budget that is allocated to the country’s fighting men, and was broken to the generals by President Megawati Sukarnoputri during her speech marking the TNI

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