Prabowo's efficiency drive takes toll on Jakarta starred hotels

Industry revenues slide as bureaucrats see meeting budgets squeezed

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Five-star hotels in central Jakarta: Civil servants are discouraged from holding meetings and seminars at hotels, hitting their occupancy rates and revenues. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)

JOSEPH RACHMAN

JAKARTA -- Hotels in the Indonesian capital are taking a hit from President Prabowo Subianto's efficiency drive, losing a big chunk of their regular customers as civil servants are denied one of their job perks: free hotel stays.

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