No Retreat
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
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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