A Waste of a Government
The president has twice criticized the performance of her own administration. Was it just bellyaching?
February 19, 2002
The pitch of President Megawati Sukarnoputri's voice suddenly rises. Addressing the opening session of a national-level conference on the coordination of efforts to enhance the efficiency of the state apparatus in Jakarta early last week, she snapped: "I'm heading a government I call a waste basket." The president said the bureaucracy hadn't changed since the New Order era, never condescended to go out into the field, and held on to
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