Unfinished Business

Business cooperation between the military and the private sector is starting to be divested. But it cannot just be stopped immediately, says Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono.

November 25, 2008

THE 10 air force officers gathered in the meeting room at their cooperative’s central office in the Pancoran area of South Jakarta last week. A number of business representatives, cooperative partners, sat facing them. An hour passed but the meeting was still not over. “If there had been agreement on ‘deposits’, it should have been over in half an hour,” said Brig. Gen. Yanuar Sugiadji, who heads the cooperative, somewhat resentfully.

...

More Articles