JAKARTA (The Straits Times/ANN): Outspoken former Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama -- popularly known by his Chinese nickname Ahok -- has used YouTube as a platform to lambast bad bureaucracy, rent-seeking and systematic inefficiency in Indonesia's state-owned companies.
Speaking on YouTube channel "Poin", which has more than 1 million subscribers, Basuki expressed his frustration over the management of state-owned oil company Pertamina for acquiring overseas oil fields on borrowed money while ignoring prospective businesses domestically.
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