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?

Tempo

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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