After Bakrie, she must be the most embarrassing serving minister. Not content with excluding foreign doctors because they're too good and hence create unfair competition with clueless local specimens, she now wants to deny Indonesians decent drugs. So rich folks will go overseas for drugs, and everyone else will go without. Just what the doctor ordered.

I wonder if there are any unique "drugs" in particular that Supari is targetting here.. she always has a separate agenda in her outbursts...

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Malaysia`s Energy Minister Shariman bin Abu Mansur is visiting Jakarta to make sure Indonesia can meet his country`s need for coal. Speaking to the press after meeting Indonesian Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro here Monday, Shariman said he was visiting Indonesia to study the conditions of Indonesia`s coal industry and make sure that Malaysia`s need for coal imports would be met.

TEMPO Interactive, Bukittinggi: The Tax Directorate General at the Finance Department is to open special service offices for high wealth individuals in Indonesia. The office is to maximize tax revenue from wealthy people. Tax Director General Darmin Nasution said that his office plans to recognize and identify individual tax payers. “They will be provided with better services,” said Darmin in Bukittinggi, West Sumatra, on Monday (24/11).

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Foreign drug companies can quit Indonesia if they do not like new rules requiring them to have local production facilities, Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said Monday. Rules introduced earlier this month are designed to encourage foreign companies to transfer technologies to Indonesia and boost investment to create jobs, she said.

Market fears that Indonesia may impose capital controls to rescue the rupiah may prove to be a self-fulfilling prophecy, but only if the finance minister loses a power struggle with influential business leaders.