With the ink still wet on Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati’s resignation in favor of a top World Bank job, her bitter foe Aburizal Bakrie, one of Indonesia’s richest men and the head of the Golkar Party, has been appointed “managing chairman” of a new government joint secretariat that is likely to play an important role in determining government policy.
Indonesia’s Bakrie Grabs New Post
With the ink still wet on Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati’s resignation in favor of a top World Bank job, her bitter foe Aburizal Bakrie, one of Indonesia’s richest men and the head of the Golkar Party, has been appointed “managing chairman” of a new government joint secretariat that is likely to play an important role in determining government policy.
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