Parasitic Symbiosis

YKEP’s joint ventures with a number of business partners are making no progress. The partners have chosen to operate on their own.

October 8, 2002

The relations between the Kartika Eka Paksi Foundation (YKEP), and its business partners seem to have become a form of parasitic symbiosis. In laymen’s language, foundation leaders may whine: you make profits while we lose. Several business partners of this Indonesian Army institution once it “picked up”—coercively or gently—were indeed at first helpful to the business of YKEP. But after the ventures helped them to p

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