Elections “don’t matter”: says Indonesia fund manager

"Foreigners may not know much about these parties, they may not care much, but at the end of the day it doesn't really matter who wins as long as the IMF and World Bank are still calling the shots."

Roland Haas, president of PT Lippo Investment Management, Jakarta, June 1999.

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Published: 15 June 1999 , last edited: 29 June 2009

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