Kwik Kian Gie: How can our leader admit, we are incapable?

AMONG the group of people rejecting foreign investors in the mining industry Kwik Kian Gie, 71, stands at the forefront.

He wrote and spoke his very critical views after the management of Cepu Block was handed over to ExxonMobil.

He spoke passionately about the economic costs, citing nationalist causes. Should we go on thinking like a colonized nation? he asked.

Born in the coastal town of Juwana at Pati, Central Java, Kwik received his education

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