FOREIGN activists in Batam yesterday rejected an offer by Singapore to admit 22 of their delegates to the IMF and World Bank meetings in the city-state and stood firm on a decision to boycott the gathering.
We have decided not to accept the Singapore government's offer that they should go.., Shalmali Guttal, a spokesman for activist group Focus on the Global South, told protesters gathered on this Indonesian island near Singapore.
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