A Storm Brewing in the DPR

Respondents of TEMPO’s opinion poll believe setting up an Ad Hoc Committee to probe the financial scandal over the use of Bulog non-budgetary funds would produce nothing significant.

January 8, 2002

What is in store for Golkar Chairman Akbar Tandjung in these early days of 2002 might make a layman in politics shiver with fright. In the third week of January 2002 a House of Representatives (DPR) plenary session will decide on the setting up of an Ad Hoc Committee to look into the alleged misappropriation of Bulog funds amounting to Rp40 billion by Akbar Tandjung and Golkar. A positive finding could spell the end of the road for Golkar which h

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