Enemy of Presidents
Tuesday, June 26, 2001
Why is businessman Arifin Panigoro playing around at politics? What makes this oil tycoon tick?
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Arifin Panigoro has made himself the enemy of all four presidents Indonesia has had. But his origins are humble and only relatively recently has he become a major player in Indonesian politics.
Way back in the mid-1960s, in his early twenties, Arifin joined the `Forces of 66' who opposed founding president Sukarno at his worst hour. But in those days he was a minor figure, insignificant on the national stage.
Not so in 1998, when he fell fou
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