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...party, says senior M.P. Haryanto Taslam. Controlling the largest party in the country's legislature has given Taufik the opportunity to put those loyal to him in key positions, politicians and analysts say. The perception is that people linked to him?many of them men from his hometown of Palembang in Sumatra?run everything from key committees in parliament to agencies such as the state workers' pension fund to the debt recovery agency. And if his opponents are to be believed, hardly a major policy decision can go through the Cabinet without his approval. The practical benefit of having friends...
...TIME: A lot of key positions in state banks, pension funds and securities firms are occupied by people from Palembang, your hometown. Are you creating a Palembang Mafia? Taufik: Many have had positions since the time of Gus Dur. It's just a coincidence but, yes, our sense of brotherhood is very strong. Bush is like that too with people from Texas, right? Do people call it the Texas Mafia...
...replacement crews, first turned to piracy in the late 1970s and reckons he has taken 20 ships since. He and his crew are from the coastal villages of the Sangir Islands, thousands of kilometers east of Babi near the southern tip of the Philippines. Like Palembang, Sangir is renowned in the piracy world for producing Indonesia's best sailors. The squat 54-year-old captain has been arrested twice, once in Malaysia when he was busted for smuggling bales of Cambodian marijuana, and once in China. Both times he was released after his bosses bribed the authorities, but he suspects...
...wife prompted mass arrests, he has successfully evaded his pursuers for 25 years. Says the pirate king: "Our culture is a water culture and there have been pirates here since the 12th or 13th century. You have to have courage and spiritual strength to be a pirate and Palembang men have it." And discipline? The pirate king almost chokes laughing...
...Bangka, Chinese farmers have been growing pepper and other crops for generations. Zheng He's men passed this way, primarily to fight a Chinese pirate who had been terrorizing the strait from a Palembang stronghold. And though there were already Chinese settlements there, as well as in towns such as Tuban in Java, the Chinese on Bangka were mainly drawn by - or imported for - work as tin miners in later centuries...