The Untouchable State Secretariat
All-powerful during Suharto’s New Order, the State Secretariat is a body with a pile of problems. Plenty of assets, almost all badly managed. Vast funds, but vanished into thin air.
August 7, 2001
After a week's postponement, President Megawati Sukarnoputri will announce her Cabinet line-up this week. It's not clear who will be on the roster. It's not clear either who will occupy the post of State Secretary, a crucial one during the New Order era. Will it be Bambang Kesowo? Or somebody else?
Whoever it is, whatever the post's name will be, a legacy awaits: the results of an audit by the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) on the State Secretariat (
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