Alarm Bells in Sentral Senayan
An investigation by Bank Indonesia has uncovered numerous irregularities at Bank CIC, including the disappearance of trillions of rupiah from a credit facility extended by the US government. Have state coffers been pilfered again?
August 27, 2002
Late last Thursday evening the phone in the TEMPO newsroom rang. The caller was a soft-spoken woman who appealed to TEMPO to base its reports concerning Bank CIC on facts not rumors. She also promised to arrange a meeting with Robert Tantular, the former owner of CIC, who she described as a simple person who had difficulty handling the press. The caller then identified herself as Susaningtyas Kertapati, a member of parliament from the PDI-P facti
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