Courting Minister Agum's Favor

Interested in a VoIP business license? The communications ministry has but one requirement: compulsory joint venture with a firm owned by Sui Teng, the problem-embroiled banker.

June 11, 2002

Winarto is neither a thief nor a murderer but two weeks ago he was jailed by the police. Director of PT Sonvone, he has but one "sin": he has no license to run the Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) business, a telephone service through the Internet now popular because it costs less than ordinary telephone lines. Recently, the police have been intensifying raids against businessmen like him. They have not just been raided but so

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