Can Jakarta bear fruits of change?

From: Business Asia | Date: June 29, 1998| Author: LAMBIE, GEORGE | Copyright information

POSTCARD FROM JAKARTA

The normally full Monday morning Garuda flight from Singapore to Jakarta was virtually empty.

On arrival at Jakarta's international airport, a similarly deserted scene greeted me. My business trip coincided with the last days of former President Suharto's long reign in Indonesia.

As I arrived, ethnic Chinese were battling somewhat more tenaciously to get out of the Indonesian capital as locals blamed them for the country's eco...

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