ON Monday last week, many BCA employees were fully involved in a demonstration. Thousands of them, all dressed very smartly, lined Jakarta's protocol thoroughfare of Jalan Sudirman saying they rejected BCA being sold to a foreign investor. "Are we to be colonized again" was written on some of the provocative banners carried by demonstrators.

Their demands, during a dialogue they had with Laksamana Sukardi, the State Minister for Stat