STILL a bit tired after he and his allies lost out at the PDI-P congress in Bali, last Thursday night Kwik Kian Gie quickly found himself facing another defeat. The former chief economics minister was in the process of typing out, by himself, an apology, to be published in a national mass media outlet, in reply to a legal statement that he received two days earlier from Hadi Purnomo, the Director-General of Taxes.

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