Earlier this week, news broke that Indonesia's Supreme Court had ruled in favor of a Bakrie group-affiliated mining company embroiled in a Rp1.5 trillion ($160.5 million) tax evasion case with the tax office. Isthis part of, or a result of, the much-speculated "political compromise" that also, if you believe the buzz, forced Sri Mulyani Indrawati out as finance minister and brought in Aburizal Bakrie as the ruling coalition's political coordinator?
Indonesia's Reformasi Under Threat
Earlier this week, news broke that Indonesia's Supreme Court had ruled in favor of a Bakrie group-affiliated mining company embroiled in a Rp1.5 trillion ($160.5 million) tax evasion case with the tax office. Isthis part of, or a result of, the much-speculated "political compromise" that also, if you believe the buzz, forced Sri Mulyani Indrawati out as finance minister and brought in Aburizal Bakrie as the ruling coalition's political coordinator?
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