LOBBYING
Drafting Law in the Fast Lane
The government is speeding up the deliberations of the pro-investor Land Acquisition Law. The process is being driven by Aburizal Bakrie.
August 25, 2010
THE yellow-painted house stands alone in a stretch of road on Jl. Gas Alam in Cimanggis, Depok, West Java. The surrounding buildings have all been leveled, demolished for the construction of the Cinere-Jagorawi toll road. For three years now, the owner of the house, Manahan Panggabean, has refused to accept the compensation offered for the land. “It was too little,” he said. But on Wednesday last week, he took leave of the house. “Now the p
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