IT was just after magrib prayers one evening at the end of July when Budiman Kostaman, Director of Money Circulation at Bank Indonesia (BI), began reading a letter that had recently arrived on his desk. The letter was addressed to Budiman, with a copy to BI Governor Burhanuddin Abdullah, dated July 22, 2003, and signed by Michael Böhm, a Director of Papierfabrik Louisenthal. This is a leading bank note manufacturing company in which the