Article: Java's uneasy riders: Indonesia may have won itself a new deal with the IMF to bail out its battered economy. But will it backpedal once again?(Brief Article)

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Indonesia may have won itself a new deal with the IMF to bail out its battered economy. But will it backpedal once again?

AFTER three weeks of tough negotiations, Indonesia reached an agreement with the IMF this week on a programme of economic reforms that would allow the resumption of disbursements from a rescue package worth $43 billion. Payments had been suspended since President Suharto and his government brazenly broke the terms of two earlier agreements. The deal is probably the last chance for Mr Suharto and the cronies he has now appointed to his cabinet. Together they have to convince the world that it is their intention to restore Indonesia's ...

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