Surtout Ne Le Dites à Personne (ou : Comment Réformer)

[Nick de Cusa]

Article de Newsweek sur la (ré)émergence de l'Indonésie, qui semble se stabiliser et vouloir changer pour le meilleur. La dernière phrase est peut-être la clé des réformes, et pourrait servir de modèle pour la France.

Yudhoyono's attack on the "high-cost economy" is a complex war on many fronts. Jakarta has begun to streamline bureaucracy and to rewrite tax, business and labor codes. Citing a favorite World Bank measure of a nation's business environment, Yudhoyono says he has already cut the time it takes to register a business from 150 days to 60, and vows to "do my best to bring it down to one month." He is orchestrating the biggest anti corruption campaign in Indonesia's history. Since its launch last year the campaign has claimed what political analyst Salim Said says is an unprecedented number of high-profile targets, including a provincial governor and a former cabinet minister. All this bears the stamp of orthodox freemarket reform, as typically prescribed by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. But don't say that in Jakarta. "We don't want to use the term 'Western style'," says Said. "Western liberalism is anathema, and capitalism is hated here, but we're doing both."