When the bureaucracy is as large and spread as it is in Indonesia, one hand often doesn't know what the other hand is doing. Couple this with instant career stopping criticism for anything perceived as being too generous to foreign exploiters plus party or name making policy lines and everyone has their own personal agenda to tend to before consideration is given to the actual issue at hand. The demise of BPMigas is a classic example.
Suggesting through the newspapers that delays in this program are likely is one way of venting frustration when the situation has become blatantly obvious. Intervention from higher up to get the wheels moving is not an uncommon way for projects to finally get going, but consensus rules and if anything is pushed through too fast it will stall and likely snowball at the local level while the criticisms are dealt with.
What is necessary from here is the common agreement that what ever is put in place to progress the projects is also upheld by the next administration. I am sure SBY will want to have good progress of these types as his legacy, campaign appearances have already begun for his 2014 replacement so the next few months is is the period that will determine whether the conservation issue becomes political enough to delay progress or not.
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