No Light at the End of the Tunnel

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

MORE people are being implicated in the suspected bribery case at Bank Indonesia. After BI Governor Burhanuddin Abdullah and two of his subordinates were named as suspects, over a dozen former high-ranking central bank officials and a former member of the House of Representatives (DPR) were banned from leaving the country at the end of last week. A stack of documents in Tempo’s possession strengthen indications of misappropriations at both ends of the flow of these “illicit” funds. It has become increasingly clear that the case went all the way up to the DPR and the judiciary.

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HE has lost 4 kilograms, and has bags under his eyes. Since he was indicted on January 28 with regards to suspected Bank Indonesia payoffs to several DPR members and officials in the judiciary, BI Governor Burhanuddin Abdullah has not been eating or sleeping well. “I have become disoriented. I don’t know what I must do,” he said hoarsely, speaking to Tempo at his “ad hoc” office last week.

Indeed, he was not in the office he had been u

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