TANRI Abeng has been chief commissioner of Telkom Indonesia for six years, yet his name has come to the fore only in the past six months, thanks to the Telkom Employees Union. This because he is supporting the merger of TelkomFlexi with Esia. The Telkom union is now pressing the government not to extend Tanri’s job.

Tanri, who is a former CEO of the Bakrie Group, was reportedly the one who enabled Esia, a subsidiary of Bakrie Telecom, to joi