THE wedding of the year in Indonesia must be that of Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono and Siti Rubi Aliya Rajasa. The hoopla and astronomical cost notwithstanding, the marriage of the president’s son to the daughter of Hatta Rajasa, his economics coordinating minister, is seen as nothing less than a formidable political union. And for those who insist it was a private affair, why were the people organizing and working on the wedding the president’s cabinet ministers? Furthermore, the wedding’s extraordinarily tight security, led by the presidential security detail, involved units from the Siliwangi and Greater Jakarta military commands. How much did the wedding cost and who donated the funds?

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Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono , Siti Rubi Aliya Rajasa ,