Red Tape at Manggala
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
ACCORDING to Ali Taher Parasong, a special staff of the Forestry Minister, sacred verses are a part of doing business. He can recite quite fluently Verse 83, Chapter 2 of the Qur’an when he solicits donations for the poor. “In your good fortune, lie the rights of others,” said Ali, an activist from Muhammadiyah, an Islamic mass organization.
Ali was not delivering a sermon. He was at the fourth floor of the Forestry Ministry in Jakarta, me
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