Murdoch Without the Sweat

In President Suharto's heyday, Harmoko was information minister. Actually, however, he is a true businessman. His extraordinary power to grant licenses for publication and broadcasting and determine the survival of the mass media made him Indonesian's Rupert Murdoch.

With power in his hands, Harmoko built a vast media business empire around Pos Kota, a leading metropolitan newspaper in Jakarta that he'd set up in the early days of the New Order

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