Muhammad Chatib Basri is not a big fan of bureaucracies.
“One of the reasons so many Indonesians have become religious,” jokes Indonesia’s 48-year-old finance minister, Jakarta’s ninth in 16 years, “is because they have to deal with the government.”
Citing a common gripe of his 250 million compatriots – and international investors too – “you submit a document and you never know when it will be completed. So you wait for everything. And you need to pray for the day they contact you and say everything is settled.
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