A Waste of a Government

The pitch of President Megawati Sukarnoputri's voice suddenly rises. Addressing the opening session of a national-level conference on the coordination of efforts to enhance the efficiency of the state apparatus in Jakarta early last week, she snapped: "I'm heading a government I call a waste basket." The president said the bureaucracy hadn't changed since the New Order era, never condescended to go out into the field, and held on to

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