Resigning is Not Enough

Another deadly train crash. In the end, the entire management of PT Kereta Api Indonesia resigned over this one. But will it do much to solve the problem?

January 1, 2002

Badar Zaenie's face looked tense. Sitting down, the fingers of the managing director of PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) were hurriedly fingering the pen in his hand. Occasionally he leant his hand on his chin. Yet his eyes remained fixed straight ahead, in the direction of the minister for state enterprises Laksamana Sukardi, communications minister Agum Gumelar and the president commissioner of KAI, Santo Budiono, who was speaking. Perhaps he w

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