A Merry-Go-Round of Overseas Trips

A government official suggests that people should not travel home for the festive season, but they themselves go abroad.

December 11, 2000

Does the government have a clear agenda for the recovery of our sagging economy? The answer is debatable. Some say it does and others say the opposite. If the question is does the government have a clear working agenda to run the state?, then the answer is un-debatable: No, it does not.

Let's look at it closely. Vice President Megawati Soekarnoputri issued an order asking ministers not to go abroad until the end of December. There are a lot of p

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