Word: indonesia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...committee members discussed the center's academic focus, contemplating broadening its mission to examine Southeast Asian nations such as Indonesia and India...
...presidential oath in his ear as he pretended to read the words out loud from the folder thrust into his hands. It was an awkward beginning in front of the national assembly for Abdurrahman Wahid, a stroke victim who last Wednesday became the first freely elected President of Indonesia. And it was a bitter denouement for Megawati Sukarnoputri, the presumed front runner who had been left sucking for air by a series of political maneuvers she hadn't even seen coming...
...truly brilliant piece of manipulation was yet to come. Even as Megawati dabbed at her tears and her supporters were rioting in the streets outside, the wily Wahid was engineering a compromise under which she would be voted Vice President the following day. Indonesia underwent yet another of its dizzying mood swings. Within 24 hrs., the Molotov cocktails and rocks that had pelted the police were replaced by victory chants and firecrackers as Megawati's followers turned the center of Jakarta into a street party that lasted into the small hours of Friday morning...
...Indonesia would be an easy diagnosis for a psychiatrist: manic-depressive. In the 18 months since former President Suharto was deposed, the country has lurched repeatedly from giddy euphoria to violent despair and back. But despite the ethnic violence, lynchings and looting in major cities and the carnage in seceding East Timor, this sprawling archipelago of 210 million people has not disintegrated into ungovernability or civil war. Some had predicted the world's next Yugoslavia, but after last week, Indonesia had instead completed its graduation from a military-backed dictatorship to the world's third largest democracy (after India...
...steep challenge. Healing Indonesia's frayed psyche will mean confronting a host of ethnic and religious wounds, as well as tending to a shattered economy that the World Bank says has suffered the worst decline of any since World War II. And if the bizarre twosome of Wahid and Megawati, so different in almost every other aspect of their characters, have one thing in common, it is their lack of experience in government...