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...story of how Taufik sought to keep a chunk of Freeport shares under Indonesian ownership?which he himself confirms?is one example of what is today Jakarta's hottest topic: the increasingly dominant role the President's husband is exercising at the most senior levels of government and business. This isn't another case of your regular, pushy presidential spouse playing gatekeeper, but of a consummate networker aggressively meddling in matters with national ramifications. To many Indonesians, the flamboyant 58-year-old Taufik is now simply the most powerful man in the country. "If Megawati is Number One and Vice...
...first place, and wielded a powerful voice in the councils of her Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle. But it is typical of the quantum leap his stature and influence have taken since Megawati became President a year ago that, though he is only an ordinary M.P., the President's husband is now "de facto chairman" of the party, says senior M.P. Haryanto Taslam. Controlling the largest party in the country's legislature has given Taufik the opportunity to put those loyal to him in key positions, politicians and analysts say. The perception is that people linked to him?many...
...evidence that Taufik has done anything illegal. But his casual assumption of presidential prerogatives, his unabashed wheeling and dealing and the memory of Suharto-style backroom deals that clings to those activities have set alarm bells ringing in Jakarta. Speculation on the actions and intentions of the President's husband reminds Indonesians of the opaqueness of the Suharto era and raises fresh questions about how open the country is really becoming. "There will be no good governance so long as Taufik does not restrain himself from grabbing the power his wife has," says Eros Djarot, formerly a close Megawati friend...
...President herself now seems to realize that her husband's burgeoning power poses a p.r. problem. She has steadfastly resisted his numerous requests?sometimes voiced in public, most recently in an interview with the influential newsweekly Tempo?to appoint one of his own closest aides to the critical post of Cabinet Secretary, the official who acts as the chief intermediary between the President and her Cabinet and thus wields tremendous influence over policy decisions. "She knows that if she gives in on this that Taufik will control everything," says a source close to Megawati. Even Taufik loyalists express concern...
...Part of Taufik's problems stem from the perception of the company he keeps. The President's husband recently met Tomy Winata, one of the country's wealthiest ethnic-Chinese businessmen and a man known for his close ties to the gambling underworld. Taufik and some family members (but not Megawati) were vacationing on an island owned by Winata. Taufik also famously conducted a prolonged shopping spree in New York City with Jacob Nursalim, the nephew of Syamsul Nursalim, one of Indonesia's largest debtors. Indeed, as TIME wrapped up an interview with Taufik at his home on a recent...