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Indonesia House Speaker’s Resignation Leaves Many Questions

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Dec 18, 2015
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The speaker of Indonesia’s House of Representatives, Setya Novanto, may have resigned but the questions raised over allegations of a spectacular bribery attempt involving US mining giant Freeport McMoRan have hardly been answered.

Setya abruptly stepped down on Wednesday, Dec. 16, just as a House ethics committee was poised to hand down a guilty verdict …

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