Hoping for a Miracle in The Caribbean

The Director-General of Taxes sent a letter to the US court stating that Pertamina will fight in the Cayman Islands court. If it loses this appeal, US$315 million has already been prepared by Pertamina for Karaha Bodas.

February 6, 2007

HIDDEN BEHIND a 2-meter-high fence, the two-story building at Jalan Pasteur No 6, Bandung, West Java, appeared to be empty. It seemed as if there was no one renting the property and there were no activities seen to be going on at all. In spite of this, taxation officials are hoping that they will be able to collect tax revenues amounting to trillions of rupiah from this empty-looking building.

This grey-painted building was a dumb witness to the p

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