Timah's remarkable turnaround may well hold clues for salvaging Indonesia's other SOEs, more than 100 of which are said to be in trouble The government is to sell off stakes in seven wholly owned state firms and divest further shares in five partly privatized companies under a restructuring plan agreed on with the International Monetary Fund.

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Although not legally obliged to divest himself of his shares, he then transferred them to close relatives, including his daughter and his wife.

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In state capitals across America, the movement to divest public funds from shares of companies that choose to do business with state sponsors of terrorism continues to make major headway.

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