JAKARTA Tax supervisor Mekar Satria Utama can pinpoint the exact moment when deep-pocketed Indonesians began to change their attitude about taxes.
"It was started by James Riady," he said, referring to the chief executive of the Chinese-Indonesian conglomerate Lippo Group, who visited the tax office on Sept. 2. Riady pitched the government's tax amnesty program, launched in July, as a national "reset button."
