The fresh winds that used to blow from the plantations run by PT Qurnia Subur Alam Raya (QSAR) in Sukabumi, West Java, have turned into a nasty storm. Thousands of investors, who put in about Rp467 billion, have been rudely awoken from their dreams of fortune, by the agribusiness company's abrupt collapse.

That includes Tosari Wijaya, a leader of the United Development Party (PPP), who invested the largest single amount of money in the compa