LONG before he became the CEO of Bulog, the state-owned logistics company, Widjanarko had been active in a number of organizations and political parties. He was deputy head of the Jakarta National Youth Committee (KNPI), Secretary-General of Indonesian Youths for Reform (AMPI) and Chairman of AMPI.

Widjan, as he is known, has been a member of Golkar’s leadership council through the 1990s. But on September 18, 1998, he did a turnaround and joi