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...praised for slashing the national debt, stabilizing the currency, lowering interest rates and selling off state-controlled assets. But the toughest reforms?those that might threaten the interests of powerful bureaucrats and business leaders?have been left to Yudhoyono. "The low-hanging fruit has already been plucked," says Tom Lembong, a manager with a U.S. hedge fund with investments in Indonesia...
...some 3% on the day of the bombing but soon rallied, closing the week at 505.36?slightly above Monday's preblast closing. And although Indonesia's currency, the rupiah, held its ground against the greenback, the blast has eroded business sentiment "just when things were turning around," says Thomas Lembong, a former official of the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency who is now a private investor. "Indonesia is especially adept at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory." If the failure of the police to prevent the Marriott bombing is any augury of what is to come, Jakarta...
...have to go that way. The attack could strengthen the hand and the resolve of Indonesia's do-nothing chief, President Megawati Sukarnoputri, allowing her to stand up to terrorism and begin seriously addressing the country's economic problems. "Will this wake her into decisiveness and action?" asks Tom Lembong, a former official at the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency. "That's really the multi-million dollar question...
...hard as it may be to imagine in the idealistic ardor that prefers to educate rather than be educated, this commencement might be an opportunity for gay and lesbian activists to listen, rather than to proselytize, for a change. Tom Lembong...
...concentrator Thomas T. Lembong '94questioned whether Lee's fame was enoughqualification for a visiting professorship."Celebrity doesn't guarantee academic excellence,"Lembong said...