NATIONAL discount champion—perhaps this is an appropriate title for Mohamad Syahrial. He's a Deputy Chairman at the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA) and has been selling off his wares at a 75 percent discount. Even a trader at Jakarta's Tanah Abang market could do well at that sort of discount. But what is unfortunate, is that even at these low prices, Syahrial cannot offload his wares.

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