Indonesia question

[kjkhoo at softhome.net]

Tim Shorrock wrote:
>I covered the IMF Asia bailout for a business newspaper and several other
>publications, and Indonesia followed IMF dictums to the T. For examples,
>look up stories (try the Jakarta Post) about the Indonesia Bank
>Restructuring Agency, which was/is responsible for cleaning up bad loans.
>Whenever its gotten off track, the IMF has stepped in. The Indonesia Letter
>of Intent included detailed plans for privatization of its telecom industry
>that were shoved down the IMF's throat (and then down Jakarta's) by the
>Clinton administration, which was doing the bidding of US multinationals
>hoping to use the crisis to crack the country's telecom markets.

Everything after the first sentence screams against the use of the 
term "bail-out".