Dwi Karsono is a happy man. President director of Debindomulti Adhiswasti, he is exuberant at the value of transactions recorded at a housing exhibition he staged last November. Seven of 58 real estate developers that took part registered a sales volume of Rp30 billion. "We don€™t know the total value yet, as not all out questionnaires have been returned," he said.

At an exhibition Debindo held in April 2000, 37 real estate developers ha