Sjamsul Nursalim is not only a major debtor, but also a big controversy-maker. Despite his notoriety as a big-shot debtor—owing Rp28.4 trillion, with cash repayments of only several hundreds of billions—Sjamsul has maintained freedom in the upper class lobby. The owner of a tyre plant who built the largest shrimp breeding pond in Southeast Asia has even visited the presidential palace as a guest of President Abdurrahman Wahid. Once he