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Archive: 23 April 2006

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Sri Mulyani fires chiefs of tax, customs offices

Sri Mulyani fires chiefs of tax, customs offices Rendi Akhmad Witular, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The government has fired the chiefs of the tax and customs offices, a move widely seen as a renewed bid to root out graft in the notoriously corrupt agencies. Aside from raising the confidence of the business community, the decision also counters the assumption that Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati -- like her predecessors -- was powerless to deal with the two agencies.