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Powerful Indonesian Insider Faces Corruption Charges

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Jul 26, 2017
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Indonesia’s House Speaker, Setya Novanto, one of the country’s most powerful politicians and a man who narrowly dodged a bullet over allegations of seeking to suborn a bribe from Freeport McMoran, the US-based mining giant in 2015, may not be so lucky this time.

On July 17, the country’s fearsome anti-graft agency Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) …

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