Entering The Last Lap

Exxon and Pertamina are trading tactics in a dispute over management rights of the Cepu Block. Now its time for the government to make a decision.

December 6, 2005

THE members of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyonos special staff were all but run off their feet the day before their boss met with United States President George W. Bush in Busan, South Korea, on Saturday morning three weeks ago. And apparently, there has just been another important meeting at the US embassy in Jakarta.

According to a Tempo source, what was discussed at this meeting was the confusion over the management rights of the

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