The Bank Bali soap opera

The Bank Bali soap opera

Like it or not, the Bank Bali scandal has turned into a soap opera, with the players in the scandal being slippery as soap. Each new revelation is immediately overtaken by another one. New episodes follow one after the other without end.

Now that the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) audit has been made public -- after months were wasted debating the question of whether it was proper to release the report -- a new problem has arisen: people are questioning the authenticity of the recently released report.

Furthermore, one page (pg. 54) is reported to be missing. Could it be that PwC submitted the wrong report to the government? And that's not the end of it. Two current Cabinet ministers are said to have received some of the money related to the scandal. Oddly, their names are not included in the report.

Whatever the problems, we have only one hope: that enough has been said about the PwC report. Stop this unproductive exchange and get to the heart of the issue by investigating those people who are mentioned in the audit. Stop playing with words and start working.

-- Media Indonesia, Jakarta