No Retreat

DEFENSE Minister Juwono Sudarsosno should not have given in. He should have stuck to his guns in the same way poet Chairil Anwar once did when he shouted: "It's dead, once and for all. But for you, the flame remains alive..."

But it was all an anticlimax. Juwono, in a meeting with House of Representatives (DPR) Commission I, "amended" what he had said: there are brokers in the DPR involved in the procurement of our main weapons systems.

He had shocked t

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