ass, wr. wb. salam sejahtera.... beberapa waktu yang lalu berita perbank-an indonesia menyita banyak waktu baca media. namun penyelesaiannya kok nggak jelas gitu ya? nah, pagi ini ada berita manca negara tentang pada bunuh-dirinya (gantung diri, ngendhat tali murdo) pimpinan bank jepang yang sedang diinvestigasi pemerintahnya. (berita dipaste-kan di bawah) yaaah seandainya budaya "daripada berputih mata lebih baik berkalang tanah" ini dimiliki sebagian saja oleh bangsa besar indonesia, kira-kira laku kali tuh tali rafia atau tali kolor untuk gantung diri ya? paling tidak dasi deeh.... Wassalam, WINARSO DRAJAD WIDODO Ishima-cho 1-14-25 Okayama shi 700-0016 Phone: 086-251-2515 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------- 07:29 AM ET 05/06/99 Ex-Japanese Banker Hangs Himself Ex-Japanese Banker Hangs Himself By CHESTER DAWSON= Associated Press Writer= TOKYO (AP) _ A former executive of an insolvent Japanese bank under investigation by the government was found hanged in his Tokyo hotel room today, police said. Takashi Uehara, 59, a former vice president of the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, apparently killed himself late Wednesday or early today, Tokyo police spokesman Katsuzo Konno said. Uehara left a suicide note to his wife, but police did not reveal the note's contents. He was the latest of several senior corporate or government officials to commit suicide amid a series of scandals in the past two years. The bank, once a pillar of Japan's postwar financial system, was nationalized last year. The bank sought the government takeover in October when regulators said its liabilities exceeded its assets. The takeover _ the first nationalization of a Japanese bank since World War II _ avoided a full-scale collapse of LTCB, which would have further eroded confidence in Japan's banking system and shaken world markets. Prosecutors had questioned Uehara about suspicions he was involved in the falsification of the bank's financial statements and alleged payment of illegal dividends to shareholders based on non-existent profits, media reports said. Calls to the Tokyo District Prosecutors Office were not answered late today. The bank had denied rumors it was insolvent before the takeover, but it is suspected of having failed to disclose the full extent of its bad loan problem. These loans, many of which were extended during a speculative boom in the late 1980s, mushroomed as the Japanese economy deteriorated in recent years. Uehara was demoted from vice president to director to take the blame for the bank's troubles and then quit the bank in November. He had served a stint in the bank's New York office after joining the LTCB in 1964 upon graduating from prestigious Tokyo University. The bank issued a statement today expressing condolences to Uehara's family. A former chairman of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank Ltd. who faced questioning by prosecutors about the bank's alleged payoffs to racketeers hanged himself in mid-1997. Early last year, a member of Parliament committed suicide to avoid arrest for allegedly taking bribes from a brokerage. ______________________________________________________________________ To subscribe, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Indonesia Baru: berkeadilan tanpa kekerasan!