Run-up Rhetoric?

President Megawati has requested the IMF for help in terms of rescheduling overseas debt. Just sweet-talking in the run-up to the second round of the presidential election?

August 24, 2004

OUT of all the members of the House of Representatives (DPR), not a single one had yet dropped off to sleep on Monday last week. President Megawati Sukarnoputris annual speech had only been in progress for a few minutes. It was then that DPR members heard the president say IMF in a very clear and distinct voice.

Suddenly, it seemed there was something interesting sounding in her speech about financial notes and next years draft state budget (RAPBN

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