Honey, Who Shrank the Banpres?

More than Rp200 billion has disappeared from the Presidential Assistance Fund over the past two years. Where has it all gone?

April 2, 2002

The money machine in the State Palace is still going strong. All you have to do is switch it on, enter the password "Banpres", and then stand back and watch the money shoot out. From the time of Suharto, through the presidencies of B.J. Habibie, Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur), and now Megawati, the Presidential Assistance Fund (Banpres) has continued to be plundered—without any need for approval by the House of Representatives (DP

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