Taxi Driver

The corpse of a long-dead taxi driver is set to become the ‘protective agent’ in the Bulog scandal which has Golkar Party leader Akbar Tandjung on tenterhooks. However, the cabbie in question was a simple man who could only afford to give Rp5,000 a month to his beloved mother.

February 5, 2002

Ablack cloud hovered over the Karet Tengsin graveyard in Jakarta. Among the tightly packed burial plots, there was a grave. An ordinary grave, like many of those around it. Inside it, covered with rain and mud all last week, a corpse was quietly lying. It was the late Dadi Surjadi, a simple man. He no longer can deny that he was involved in the Bulog scandal which has Golkar chief Akbar Tandjung fighting for his career, and which people are blami

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