Indonesia Think Tanks = Corporations' Quiet Weapon
Do you know how many think tanks in town? Well, this is a very lucrative business, at least in the last few years, thanks to reform movement. How they generate businesses? How business groups quitely deploy think tanks as weapons whenever their interests ruined? Which group owns what think tank? Which ones are stinky tanks?
The think tanks normally provide analyses, TV advertising, frame the debates, polling and academic studies that add an air of authority to corporate arguments. They organize events such as press conference, seminars, book review etc at luxury hotels. Nobody knows how these groups collect the tax-deductible contributions from major corporations, yet people quoted them as 'independent analyst'.
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The think tanks normally provide analyses, TV advertising, frame the debates, polling and academic studies that add an air of authority to corporate arguments. They organize events such as press conference, seminars, book review etc at luxury hotels. Nobody knows how these groups collect the tax-deductible contributions from major corporations, yet people quoted them as 'independent analyst'.
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posted by yosef at 8:44 AM
4 Comments:
He he he
I once had a very rare chance to meet one staff of these "think-tank-that called-themselves-independent analyst" as you referred herein - introduced by a friend. Not that "independent" apparently. Depends "on the mission". And they work like guerillas... inspired by Perdjoeangan '45 perhaps?
Let's be clear. A think-tank like CSIS, is what you referred to? Or something like Van Zorge? Or like LSI -- there are two of them: one organized by Denny JA; one by Saiful ... which one?
"Stinky tanks?"
Whooa....
Which one....heh?
"think-thanks" always has interest lah ...
as long as they don't sacrifice the objective of any organisation who use them ...
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