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The End for Indonesia's Bakrie?

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Sep 28, 2012
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Aburizal Bakrie, the billionaire politician who simultaneously heads the Bakrie conglomerate empire and the Golkar political party, and who has dodged a long string of financial disasters, appears to have just about run out his string unless he can pull a government bailout one more time.

This time around, it doesn’t seem likely that will happen, nor are…

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