HIT by the global economic crisis, nations around the world appear to be drawn into a kind a financial whirlpool in the past four months. "There is no refuge anywhere," said Raden Pardede. It is a crisis that has also hit Indonesia since last September. Certainly, it has made life for Pardede, who is Secretary of the Committee to Stabilize the Financial Sector, doubly hectic.

The committee, which is led by the Finance Minister and the Bank Indones