A Flurry of Checks, but no Balances

THE Buloggate II scandal surfaced in 2001 when Bulog chief Rizal Ramli and Defense Minister Mahfud Md, both in office under the Wahid administration, charged Rahardi Ramelan, Ramlis predecessor, with siphoning off billions of rupiah in Bulog funds to Golkar through then State Secretary Akbar Tandjung ahead of the 1999 General Election. The charge was never proven in court. The money was said to have been used to buy rice and other basic necessiti

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