Indonesia's current ills get the CNN treatment tonight in a 30-minute programme dedicated to what went wrong and what the experts think will happen next. Steve Hanke, the whizz-kid from Johns Hopkins University who has been hired as a special economic adviser to President Suharto, will be interviewed live on Business Asia at 9.30 pm.
Mr Hanke is the man who has persuaded Mr Suharto that the way to rejuvenate the economy is to link the rupiah to a currency board - a suggestion the outside business world, and the International Monetary Fund, are less than enthusiastic about.
We have had an excellent reminder of the essentials of the Indonesian crisis this week in the form of a report from the Australian 60 Minutes team, in which the reporter had the guts to ask a panel of Indonesian high-ups: 'Why should foreign tax-payers bail out this country when Suharto and his family are all billionaires?' The reaction was electric: lots of shuffling, pained smiles and, finally, a long answer that didn't make much sense.
Press conferences are usually so stage-managed that it is hard to make those giving them look uncomfortable, particularly by asking such an obvious question.
But perhaps that is just the point: the connection between the vast personal wealth of the Suharto family and the collapse of the economy is so simple no one even notices it any more.
Tom Robbins has been writing hippie epics about strange perfumes and odd creatures for years, and his many fans cannot get enough of them. But only one of his books ever made it to the screen, tonight's film Even Cowgirls Get The Blues (Pearl, 9.30pm).
