The Banpres Scandal

April 23, 2002

It is becoming increasingly clear why President Megawati once described the bureaucracy as "a wastebasket". Just think: the noble intentions of a head of state to improve the welfare of her troops has become a political scandal, thanks to a conspiracy by palace officials. State secretariat officials, used to serving President Suharto and his ways for decades, seem unwilling to relinquish the illegal power they have enjoyed for so l

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