Dr Sri Mulyani Indrawati, The Banker’s Finance Minister of the Year 2007, is one of a triumvirate of women in the policy-making elite of Indonesia who have been dubbed “the three divas” by local journalists. She is the most powerful of the trio, who include trade minister Mari Pangestu and senior deputy governor of the Bank of Indonesia Miranda Goeltom. But the label “diva” gives an entirely false impression of Dr Indrawati – an accomplished and serious technocrat who seems to have little time for rhetorical flourish.
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