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...Unfortunately, Megawati, Indonesia's third president since 1999, hasn't been up to the task. Even her supporters label her slow-moving and indecisive. Megawati was sworn in last year after a crisis during which her beleaguered predecessor, Abdurrahman Wahid, tried to call emergency rule to save himself from impeachment. Since then, she's been paralyzed by countervailing political forces. After years of repression, social groups of all types, from religious organizations to labor, are asserting themselves in Indonesia's new democracy, looking to right old wrongs and creating a cacophony of competing interests...
...benefit from the changes. As virtually the only Indonesian politician with national recognition, electoral triumph in 2004 seems almost assured for the increasingly aloof leader. Besides the assurance of a public mandate, Megawati will also be spared the threat of removal by the unruly assembly, which last year impeached Abdurrahman Wahid after he served just 21 months of his five-year presidential term...
...Politicking is second nature to Taufik, whom associates and adversaries alike characterize as a shrewd operator and a natural networker. "He's a grassroots politician in the populist tradition," says Rizal Ramli, a minister in the administration of Abdurrahman Wahid, Megawati's predecessor. Those characteristics explain much of Taufik's current behavior, friends say. "He knows the perils and dangers of being political and the President's spouse, and yet he has embraced his position as a power broker," says Jeffrey Winters, an American academic and author of numerous books on Indonesia who is also personally close to both...
...passed defense bill that allows the military to dispatch troops without presidential consent as signs of growing military influence. Some see this as Megawati's way of repaying favors to the generals who enabled her smooth transition to power after they grew fed up with the erratic rule of Abdurrahman Wahid. "The military has nothing to fear under Megawati," says Kivlan Zen, a retired general. "She owes them...
...dollar to 11,000 per dollar in about 90 days. Then came the anti-Suharto revolution, and the beginnings of Indonesian democracy. Then the presidential election, where a plurality of popular votes went to Megawati but the politicians in Jakarta decided to give the Presidency to Abdurrahman Wahid. Then this year another crisis led the same politicians to bring down Wahid and install Megawati into power...