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...Habibie's business enthusiasm was lavished on the public sector. Like his mentor, he dabbled lucratively in private enterprise through his family. The Habibie clan controls two large conglomerates--the Timsco Group, named after his younger brother Timmy, and the Repindo Panca Group, headed by his second son Tareq Kamal Habibie. Many of the more than 66 companies in these two groups have fed off contracts from the state enterprises Habibie oversaw as Technology Minister, says sociologist George Aditjondro of the University of Newcastle in Australia. That does not bode well for a clean government under a Habibie presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Is B.J. Habibie? | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

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