Tuesday, June 24, 2014

The week in review: Grim economy clouds campaign

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More bad economic news has clouded the campaign for the July 9 presidential election, two weeks before the campaign period ends.  That is not because of the shocking statement by presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto last Sunday that the state had lost Rp 7.2 quadrillion due to corruption...
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

How Salim Group reemerged from near bankruptcy to vast conglomerate

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When autocratic president Soeharto fell in May 1998 after almost 32 years of rule with steady, robust economic growth, he left behind an economy in shambles floating on a corrupt bureaucratic system polluted by business cronyism and nepotism. So fragile was the foundation of the economy that...
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Ali Wardhana, the architectof economic development  Vincent Lingga, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Opinion | Mon, June 09 2014, 9:20 AM Professor Ali Wardhana, who was dean of the Jakarta School of Economics at the University of Indonesia (UI) from 1967 to 1978; the nation’s finance minister...
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View Point: Presidentialcandidates promise, butwhere will all the moneycome from? Vincent Lingga, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Opinion | Sun, June 08 2014, 1:07 PM The two presidential-candidate pairs, Joko “Jokowi” Widodo-Jusuf Kalla and Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa, have revealed their economic...
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