Taken for a Ride

Seawater was not the reason for the dilapidated state of hundreds of Transjakarta buses imported from China. Udar Pristono, when he headed the Jakarta Transportation Service, offered this arbitrary excuse after it turned out that several components of the vehicles were rusty. The buses had been transported by sea, and had been struck by huge waves and covered with salt water, he claimed.

This excuse is nothing more than a deception because the c

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