Wanted: Ministerial Volvos

Blunders in state inventories may end in the misappropriation of state assets. Not only Volvos, even official-posting houses can fall into private hands.

August 7, 2001

Bondan Gunawan could only shake his head after leaving his office at the State Secretariat in June last year. He was at a loss as to why his official car, a Daihatsu Hiline, wasn't listed in the state inventory. Imagine if Bondan, the former state treasurer, had decided to take advantage of the blunder. The car would fall into his hands. And the state would have to bear the burden of hundreds of millions of rupiah in losses.

According to Bon

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