Uniform Success Across the Board

Retired generals have become mining corporate leaders. They frequently serve as political backers.

August 7, 2012

ITO Sumardi no longer likes questions about legal cases. Retiring as a police commissioner-general last year, he prefers to talk about business. "I'm now a mining businessman," he told Tempo.

Ito owns 20 percent of the shares in Golden Great Borneo, which has a 6,000-hectare coal mining concession in Lahat, South Sumatra. He said the shares were obtained when he held the post of Head of the National Police Crime Unit. "Blank stock certificates," he s

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