The Ambassador's New Home

The Indonesian ambassador's house in Geneva bought at a cost of Rp70 billion has created an uproar.

April 12, 2005

THE report in the Swiss daily Le Matin reads at a glance like any ordinary newspaper story—about a house on 229 Rte de La Capita, Collonge-Bellerive, Vasenaz, with a veranda facing a swimming pool, a spacious garden, a volleyball court, and servant quarters. What is unusual was that the house was bought for an equivalent of Rp70 billion by the Government of Indonesia, a country still reeling from devastating disasters—including the

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