Suharto’s New Order Déjà Vu
The election of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chair will determine the overall support of businesspeople in the 2024 presidential election. There are efforts to restore KADIN to the role it had in the Suharto era.
Tempo
June 11, 2021
IT is not really important who wins the election for chair of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN) at the congress at the end of June in Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi. Intervention from the government in the contest between two candidates, Anindya Bakrie and Arsjad Rasjid, proves the strengthening role and influence of KADIN—in a negative sense—in the Jokowi era.
KADIN is being pressured to become a tool of
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