A Potentially Explosive Situation

Many eyes are on the shares the Dakab Foundation owns in an explosives materials factory. But it is Pupuk Kujang which supplies the factory with raw materials and even provided the land that it stands on, that really should benefit most.

September 25, 2001

AND how is everything at the Dana Abadi Karya Bakti (Dakab) Foundation? The original patron of the foundation, General Suharto, was ousted from power in June 1998. The foundation is still in existence but its condition is not much better than that of its former patron. In the past, Dakab's office in the Granadi Building on Jalan Rasuna Said, South Jakarta was full of businesspeople but now is as empty as a grave. According to a TEMPO source at the...

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