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Behind the Headlines B e h i n d t h e H e a d l i n e s vol. xi no. 5 — julY 15, 2009 FROM THE EDITOR A legacy worth leaving INTELLIGENCE Names floated for Sri Mulyani’s replacement Can I get a witness! Campaign team rifts hampered Mega-Prabowo IN BRIEF A change to the House rules Public service law a step toward reform New investigations show KPK can still bite SPECIAL FEATURE A One Horse Race PresentatioN Paramadina University rector Anies Baswedan Van Zorge Report | The Executive Network PT Mitra Dinamika Abadi Sequis Center (S. Wijoyo Center) 8th & 10th fl | Jl. 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The information contained in this document was gathered from sources that we believe to be reliable and correct. However, no warranty is made as the accuracy, completeness, or fairness of the information, opinions, or projections herein. Certain assertions made herein constitute forward- looking statements, which are by their nature subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause the actual outcome to be materially different. No liability whatsoever will be accepted for the fairness of the contents hereof by the Van Zorge Report, Van Zorge Heffernan & Associates, or any of their respective directors or employees. Van Zorge Report — July 15, 2009 Table of contents: FROM THE EDITOR................................................. 4 A legacy worth leaving INTELLIGENCE........................................................ 6 Names floated for Sri Mulyani’s replacement Can I get a witness! Campaign team rifts hampered Mega-Prabowo IN BRIEF................................................................. 10 A change to the House rules Public service law a step toward reform New investigations show KPK can still bite SPECIAL FEATURE.................................................... 18 A One Horse Race Presentation........................................................... 25 Paramadina University rector Anies Baswedan 3 Van Zorge Report — July 15, 2009 FROM THE EDITOR A legacy worth leaving resident Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono deserves once again be the case, half of the cabinet members the congratulations flowing in from foreign are politicians loyal more to their political parties and leaders, domestic rivals, and news commentators private interests than to the public good? How possible Pfor his decisive first-round reelection victory. At nearly is a successful effort to rebuild the country if top-flight every turn over the last three months, Yudhoyono reformers are sidelined for making waves? outperformed his rivals. The likely departure of both Finance Minister and Despite a few notable flaps by loose-lipped aides Coordinating Economic Minister Sri Mulyani and a tendency to be goaded into petty spats, the Indrawati and Tax Directorate chief Darmin Nasution campaign showed a remarkable degree of discipline, to Bank Indonesia does not augur well for tilting the sophistication, and responsiveness. In the debates, balance of power in the cabinet away from the Golkar Yudhoyono often came off as dull and a bit aloof. dinosaurs and the Islamist party representatives. But while his performances did not exactly make for scintillating entertainment, his willingness to speak in More concerning than Sri Mulyani’s likely move to the concrete terms about solving issues facing the country bank are the rumoured reasons behind the decision. compared favourably to the glibness of Jusuf Kalla, and Yudhoyono’s notorious concern with his image may the outright ignorance of Megawati Sukarnoputri. have driven him to reassign Sri Mulyani, rather than run the risk of her stealing the show. Next to Sri Mulyani More than the lack of a confidence-inspiring and her outspoken, hard-driving style, Yudhoyono challenger, however, Yudhoyono owes his reelection to may have feared looking like only a reluctant reformer a host of popular policies that led voters to support his forced by his staff to kerb cronyism in his cabinet. candidacy on the basis of their rational economic and political interests. Some commentators have derided The effort to clean up the bureaucracy, however, needs programs such as the direct cash assistance to the poor that hard-driving type of reform. Sri Mulyani will no and a well-publicised campaign to eliminate school doubt excel at the bank just as she has excelled at the fees as populism à la Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand’s Ministry of Finance, but her move to the bank is a exiled former premier. But if the school fee initiative signal that there are limits to how hard reformers will is combined with real educational reform, and if the be allowed to push. cash assistance helps justify further efforts to reduce wasteful and counterproductive subsidies
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