THE gifts that Laksamana Sukardi brought back from America and Japan were a bit of an anticlimax for the owners of Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). The State Minister for State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) said in a statement that SME owners could buy Bank Central Asia (BCA) shares through the stock exchange. This means only one thing: there's almost no chance of SMEs becoming a strategic investor in BCA. Laksamana also made clear several s...