Sugar
Bitter Harvest
Tuesday, October 1, 2002
The government has just limited Indonesia's importers of refined sugar to three state-owned plantations. But with little industry experience and even less capital, how will they succeed?
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The government has taken few decisive steps to stem the flow of illegally smuggled sugar, but it has been quick to limit legitimate imports. On 17 September 2002, the Director General of Customs declared that sugar imports would, from now on, have to be processed through the red channel. This decision, in effect, reverses the policy of the Minister of Finance, who in January announced that basic commodities (sugar, flour, & rice) would be
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