BULOG’S “success” records include not only its ability to instantly import rice or to stabilize prices, but also to send its dignitaries to jail. Corruption, sales of its assets, and misappropriation of its non-budgetary funds for non-rice purchase/sales affairs are the major causes that transform the Bulog officials into prisoners.

One of the most legendary cases is the “Budiadji Case.” Budiadji, head of the East Kalimantan Logistics D