THE ongoing dispute over the importation of rice is increasingly looking like a second-rate soap opera. The 'actors' have evaded responsibility, blaming each other with no clear explanation. This is tragic because it is not the first of such occurrences. When Mari Pangestu was trade minister and Anton Apriyantono was the agriculture minister, the question of imported rice became a major dispute. It does not look like the government of Susilo Bamban