Business in the Fast Lane

March 27, 2007

“A nation is not a shop”

—Jusuf Kalla

THE Vice President said this in a speech—a request for Indonesia to be managed properly, not chaotically, devoid of standards. He was alluding to the disorganized management of funds for the recovery of post-tsunami Aceh.

If Kalla had been true to his words, the mess that everyone is talking about would not have happened. He imported 12 used helicopters from Germany, through a company from the Buka

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