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...pegging the Indonesian rupiah to the U.S. dollar, says TIME Business Correspondent Bernard Baumohl: to bail out his relatives and cronies who have been quietly plundering the nation for decades. Suharto will likely set the rupiah-per-dollar rate at around 5,000 -- almost twice its current value, predicts Baumhohl. That gives his friends an opportunity to pay off their dollar debts in overvalued rupiah. "They'll save a fortune," says Baumhohl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Women and Children Last | 2/18/1998 | See Source »

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