Replace the 'Vacuum Cleaner' with a 'Tractor'

An entire series of major Indonesian graft cases has gone unpunished. What lies behind the hyper-slow and often dubious legal process?

December 26, 2000

President Abdurrahman Wahid's administration talks tough on corruption, but its record is pretty poor. People are quietly comparing it to the bad old days of ex-president Suharto's New Order government.

Graft cases involving Suharto himself, his children and cronies are just some of the outstanding detritus. Then there is the massive abuse of Bank Indonesia Liquidity Support during the country's economic collapse, which has brought the central ban

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