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A court in Jakarta has jailed Indonesia’s former trade minister Thomas Trikasih Lembong for four‑and‑a‑half years for wrongly giving private firms the right to import sugar, Reuters reported on Friday.

An Indonesian court on Friday sentenced a former trade minister to 4.5 years in jail for improperly granting sugar import permits that authorities said had caused nearly 600 billion rupiah (US$36.84 million) in state losses.

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