AROUND 2,000 PEOPLE thronged the meeting hall of the Balai Sarbini auditorium, Plaza Semanggi, Jakarta, on Wednesday two weeks ago. These were not the young fans of the stars of the Indonesian Idol television series, which is recorded here. They were all customers of investment portfolio products that are currently creating some concern.

The reason they were all there, apparently, was because of reports that the payment of yields or interest on pr