Indonesia's Vice President Yusuf Kalla and welfare minister Aburizal Bakrie visited the disaster area.

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The family, headed by patriarch Aburizal Bakrie, a presidential contender for 2014, has ran into trouble before.

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Led by patriarch Aburizal Bakrie, the family is proposing to buy back its coal mines that were injected into the venture, along with other non-family assets.

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The brutal truth is that even massed together, SMEs may never be able to match the pull of even one of the major tycoons like Marimutu Sinivasan, Aburizal Bakrie or Anthony Salim.

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