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...Jakarta Stock Exchange last Wednesday, killing 15, few Indonesians had any doubt what group was behind it. It was the third bombing in as many months to hit just as former dictator SUHARTO and his family were scheduled to be questioned about corruption allegations. The dilemma facing President ABDURRAHMAN WAHID: how to deal with a powerful, well-connected family that will stop at nothing to protect itself. The next morning, a confidant of the President's urged that he "cut off the head of the snake"--meaning, take direct action against the Suharto clique. "We are getting closer," Wahid obliquely...
...shifted quite as far in Indonesia, which is still beset by ethnic violence and fierce infighting among both the political and military elites - and that's worked to Suharto's advantage. Even if convicted on corruption charges, he's already been guaranteed a pardon by the beleaguered President Abdurrahman Wahid, in a sign of the tenuous balance of forces in a country where politicians still live dangerously. The ritual humiliation of Suharto through a trial without punishment may even be a safety valve to protect Wahid from pressure to pursue military leaders for past human rights abuses. Still, Suharto...
...President Abdurrahman Wahid arrived at the presidential palace in central Jakarta last October, his spirits and those of the country were riding high. After 32 years of Suharto's dictatorship and 17 months of interim rule by Suharto's deputy B.J. Habibie, Indonesia was finally getting a reformist President who preached tolerance and democratic openness. But as the blind Muslim cleric and his family mounted the palace steps, a cry rang out. A dukun--a Javanese soothsayer--who habitually accompanies Wahid called the party to a halt. He said he could see the "big man," the spirit of Suharto, standing...
That authority is spreading. When Indonesia's new reformist President, Abdurrahman Wahid, visited last month, an angry crowd gathered to protest the disappearance of their relatives during the occupation. Gusmao immediately jumped off the podium and plunged into the crowd, arguing, calming and pleading until, single-handedly, he had pacified several hundred people. Then he led three of the protesters through the throng to meet Wahid. "It was amazing," says Peter Galbraith, former U.S. ambassador to Croatia, now working for the U.N. in East Timor. "There was this woman politely asking Wahid to know where her husband was buried...
President Abdurrahman Wahid may be a picture of physical frailty, but he fights smart - as former military leader General Wiranto discovered Sunday. Wiranto, who had defied Wahid's order to step down as minister for security, was summarily suspended from the cabinet Sunday, even though the president had indicated only a day earlier that the general could remain in office pending the outcome of an official investigation into his role in last year's East Timor violence. The standoff had fueled rumors of a coup against Wahid, who had asked for the resignation of Wiranto - the military leader who engineered...