How the Finance Ministry Cooked the Books

State auditors have been looking into the Investment Fund Accounts in the finance ministry. Diversion of funds and misuse of money for state projects are likely to be uncovered.

August 6, 2002

The whispers are getting louder in the directorate general of thefinance ministry"s finance body. The people at Lapangan Banteng, Central Jakarta, have suddenly found they have extra work on their hands. And it is work they probably would rather not do at all. Bundles of documents which had been moldering away in the cupboards for years, now suddenly have to be brought out into the hard, cold light of day, for scrutiny. The auditors of the Dev

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