THE headline in one of the afternoon newspapers disturbed President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono last Tuesday. How could it not? It blared: April 1, Electricity Rate Up.

The President, reportedly, instantly asked for clarification from his ministers who had just had a meeting that afternoon. Nothing unusual, when fuel oil prices went up it was the same, said a Tempo source, chuckling. However, Minister for Communications Sofyan Djalil merely commented