Sneaking Around The Tanjung Jati project
Minister Rini Soewandi has stopped her insistence on counter-trade for the Tanjung Jati B power project. Any collusion behind the decision?
Tempo
April 15, 2003

ALETTER was sent to the office of Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dorodjatun Kuntjoro Jakti, last Monday. Its contents suggested a tone of resignation. The sender, Minister of Trade & Industry, Rini Soewandi, stated her compliance with the decision of Minister Dorodjatun that the construction of the Tanjung Jati B steam power generating plant requires no counter-trade obligation.
It was an anticlimax. Rini had in the past few mont
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