By the same token, he has rejected the claim of Sri Mulyani Indrawati, the finance minister, that Golkar is pursuing her only because she has resisted special treatment for Bakrie family firms.
The real risk is that the conclave produces a document with enough token reforms to allow member governments to claim victory, but little substantial liberalisation.
When Malaysia was established in 1963 it seemed expedient for the Philippines to maintain this claim over Sabah, and the Malaysian government agreed to continue paying a token rent.
The moral claim real money places on society on behalf of its bearer comes not from the intrinsic value of the token but from the fact that the bearer had previously produced some good or service deemed valuable by others.