Buttressed by a Billionaire Brother
FADLI Zon first raised the idea of a political party as he sat in a car with Hashim Djojohadikusumo, Prabowo Subianto's younger brother, on the way to Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta Airport in 2007. "If good people do nothing, bad people will step in," Fadli said, quoting 18th century Irish philosopher Edmund Burke.
Hashim, who was rolling in cash from the US$2 billion sale of his Kazakhstan oilfield, was apparently convinced. "Pak Hashim immediately agreed," said Fadli, now deputy chairman of the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party.
July 1, 2014
FADLI Zon first raised the idea of a political party as he sat in a car with Hashim Djojohadikusumo, Prabowo Subianto's younger brother, on the way to Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta Airport in 2007. "If good people do nothing, bad people will step in," Fadli said, quoting 18th century Irish philosopher Edmund Burke.
Hashim, who was rolling in cash from the US$2 billion sale of his Kazakhstan oilfield, was apparently convinced. "Pak Hashim immediately agree
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