In fact, civil service reform has been attempted several times since the Soeharto era, but its implementation has been hit-and-miss.
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Back in the late 1990s, Internet companies were proclaimed as the new engine of the "wired" economy, with stocks at insanely high prices, bringing corporate valuations higher than "old" economy establishments such as Time Warner and Shell.
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The WSIS, the first global conference on the Internet, which was held in Geneva in December, set targets that include ensuring that over 50 percent of the citizens in each country should have access to the Internet by 2015.