Questioning Orders

Is the president’s instruction to settle the Gayus Tambunan case for real or is it just a reputation-management move?

January 26, 2011

PRESIDENT Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono actually has the complete authority to resolve the protracted Gayus Tambunan case, even without issuing his 12 instructions last week. What the instructions have done is open our eyes to the fact that little has resulted in the six-month police investigation into the Gayus case. Gayus has been sentenced to seven years in jail for a case that is generally being seen as only catching the ‘small fish,’ namely t

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