ONE year ago, Aburizal Bakrie was enjoying retirement and feeling grateful for his good life. The Bakrie family business which he had led for the past 30 years, was beginning to show signs of recuperating after the devastating debts of 1997. And Ical, as Bakrie is familiarly known, had even paved the way for his successors in the family business.

But Bakrie's life underwent a change. The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (Kadin)