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The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.

The IMF is set up to deal with liquidity crises.

Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.

And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises, they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed.

But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.

Everyone with all those good intentions came to help Indonesia rebuild from the tsunami; but the co-ordination problem was very big, because they came with their own way of doing business; they came with the inflexibility of their own governance.

Crush Malaysia! Indonesia may change its tactics, but our goal will remain the same.

We're working with our neighbors Indonesia and Malaysia to fight terrorism in our own common seas.

I have full confidence in the IMF. It is a very strong international institution.

Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.