Fool's Gold: Right 'Royal' Rip-offs

Many foundations are promising to distribute Bung Karno's wealth and are using President Megawati's name. Thousands have been duped.

August 7, 2001

This Tuesday is a much anticipated day for thousands of South Sulawesi locals. A group called The Ahli Sunnah Waljama'ah Islamic Mission Foundation (Yamisa) have promised that on that day, they will distribute wealth formerly owned by Indonesia's founding president Sukarno—alias Bung Karno—in their possession. The sum of this wealth is said to be, whether one believes it or not, Rp800 trillion and 7,000 tons of gold bars. Tales like t

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