An office in the Mega Kuningan area of South Jakarta functions almost like a transit hotel for Ismed Hasan Putro. On Thursday last week, the number one man at state industrial conglomerate Rajawali Nusantara Indonesia (RNI) chose to stay in that office, in a room with a partition separating it from his own quarters.

"It's for efficiency's sake. On Friday morning, I must fly to Jambi to check on an oil palm plantation," said Ismed, a man appointed CEO