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Indonesia's Games Mess

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Oct 19, 2011
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With hardly three weeks to go before the Southeast Asian Games are to open in Indonesia, they are turning into the wrong kind of symbol for a country supposedly coming into its own as a regional powerhouse.

Instead of a source of national pride, the games have become a national embarrassment riddled with corruption, delays and mismanagement that has near…

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