September 9, 2008 edition
THE Finance Minister ordered Bank Mandiri to release a Rp1.2 trillion deposit of PT Timor Putra Nasional, a company owned by Tommy Suharto. This is the second round of the shady dealings over the sale of the debt collection right over PT Timor to Vista Bella Pratama—a firm which is said to be connected with Suharto’s youngest son.
Here is a business transaction which is slippery, crooked, and full of intrigue. An air-conditioning technician was even appointed as a commissioner in Vista Bella.
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He was too unbending a person to compromise. Wanted by the Dutch, British, American and Japanese secret police, he was hunted down across 11 countries because of his dream: Indonesian independence.
He is Tan Malaka, the first man to conceive the idea of a Republic of Indonesia. Muhammad Yamin named him the real “Father of the Republic of Indonesia.” Sukarno called him “an expert at waging a revolution.” But his was a tragic life, which ended by the guns of an army of the republic he helped create.
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