Bank Bali and the Governor

BI governor Syahril Sabirin is finally in court over the Bank Bali corruption scandal. But will he be acquitted like those before him?

January 30, 2001

Few could equal the feat. Syahril Sabirin now divides his time between governing Indonesia's central bank and sitting in the dock in court. No one much comments on it any more. Once a week he takes time off from his work at Bank Indonesia (BI) and heads down the road to the Central Jakarta District Court, where he is the defendant in an ongoing trial over the sensational Bank Bali case, involving no less than Rp904 billion. The 1999 affair made in

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