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BLACKOUT!

Tuesday, September 17, 2002

Twice in as many days, there was no electricity in the entire Jabotabek area. Were these mere technical problems or a taste of worse things to come?

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The president director of the State Electricity Company (PLN), Eddie Widiono, seems to be clairvoyant. Two years ago, at a seminar on electricity in Jakarta, he made a prediction that by 2003, Java-Bali would be shrouded in darkness. The reason: scarce electricity supply due to minimum PLN investments.

Widiono's estimate might just be optimistic. On September 12, Asep, a resident of Cibinong, Bogor, nearly had a heart attack. A hu

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