Bakrie

Effendi Gazali, the show's creator, says Mr Bakrie will have to endure being sent up on his own station, "or we'll quit! "

Vallar, a London-listed investment firm founded by Mr Rothschild, is to acquire stakes in two Bakrie-associated coal firms.

Although he was put in charge of social welfare and public services instead after a reshuffle in 2005, the controversy only grew.

Sri Mulyani said in a widely publicized interview that Golkar Party Chairman Aburizal Bakrie was behind the campaign to oust her.

Mr Bakrie's continued influence is the cause of much discussion in Jakarta.

And Mr Yudhoyono may yet pacify his new allies in Golkar, perhaps by striking a deal to resolve Mr Bakrie's tax cases.

Vallar will change its name to Bumi plc. Its chief executive and chief financial officer will be Bakrie appointees.

In 2006 a devastating mudflow erupted near a site in Java where Lapindo Brantas, a Bakrie-controlled company, was drilling for gas.

After Ms Mulyani resigned, Mr Bakrie took an ominous role in Mr Yudhoyono's government.

The powerful Bakrie family of Indonesia, for example, is on a spending spree and was recently able to tap equity markets for $4. 4bn.

Aburizal Bakrie has survived controversy in business and politics;