EVERY day for "critical minister" Kwik Kian Gie, 68, starts with two slices of bread and a cup of coffee. If he does not have too much work, and there are no morning visitors, the State Minister for National Development Planning likes to exercise by swimming in the pool behind his house in Radio Dalam, South Jakarta.

The minister prefers to live in a private house rather than occupying one of the official homes supplied by the state on the e