The Tricks of Madman Nursalim

Sjamsul Nursalim has performed financial acrobatics that can properly be called corruption. The government must be firm and take a tougher line with him.

May 21, 2002

If opportunistic folk hero Ken Arok were alive today, he would surely take lessons from Sjamsul Nursalim. The legendary slippery adventurer who founded the line of the kings of Singosari now appears far less wily than the super-invincible modern day conglomerate head. Sjamsul has earned himself the criminal stamp, as a suspect in the misuse of emergency liquidity assistance topping a humungous Rp10 trillion. That puts him well and truly in the g

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