The Compromise on the Third Floor
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
THE visitor arrived at 8am one day last month. The Office of the Coordinating Ministry for Peoples Welfare on Jalan Merdeka Barat was still quiet. The visitor was dressed casually as if he had just woken up. He told Soetedjo Yuwono, Secretary to the Coordinating Minister for Peoples Welfare, that he worked for the Department of Public Works.
The man then handed over a piece of paper. On it were written 14 regencies that had been struck by natural
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