BULOG SUSPECT
Working under Minister Rini Soewandi's orders, Bulog may have flouted government regulations.
July 1, 2003
IN the office courtyard of the State Logistics Agency (Bulog) in Semarang, Central Java, Nuril Arifin set fire to 15 sacks of unhusked rice and watched them burn to a cinder. On Tuesday two weeks ago, he and hundreds of other farmers, all members of the Indonesian Farmers Solidarity Forum, were really upset. They felt oppressed, having seen a dramatic drop in the price of unhusked rice from Rp1,725 per kilogram to only Rp700 per kilogram. Mea
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