Word: indonesia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take power from an autocrat who for 32 years has ruthlessly put down all challenges to his rule? Sometimes, as Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie showed in Indonesia last week, by pretending until the very last minute not to want it. Habibie had been slipped into the No. 2 position of Vice President only 10 weeks ago by his patron of 24 years, the Indonesian strongman he slavishly referred to as S.G.S., Supergenius Suharto. The mere suggestion that Suharto's successor at the height of Indonesia's search for an economic bailout would be a man widely regarded as a free-spending...
...would it be accepted by anyone outside the presidential palace? To many of the students who celebrated Suharto's departure by dancing for joy in the fountain at the Parliament complex they had occupied for four days, Habibie was a perpetuation of the problem that brought Indonesia to its knees--the authoritarian system of crony capitalism known by its Indonesian acronym of KKN, for corruption, collusion and nepotism. Had all the riots and deaths--more than 500--given Indonesians nothing but a clone of the kleptocrat they had so painfully deposed...
...Indonesia's new president B.J. Habibie had been in office less than 70 hours when he faced the first of what will probably be a series of crises that will mark his presidency. Sources close to the President tell TIME that on May 23, Habibie was confronted at his office by Lieut. General Prabowo Subianto, son-in-law of former President Suharto and the head of the powerful Army Strategic Reserve Command. The general "strongly requested" that Habibie name him army chief of staff and replace the chief of the armed forces, General Wiranto, with a Prabowo ally. Frightened, Habibie...
...Indonesia? A touch of political stability hasn't helped the economy much -- the rupiah is now somewhere near the center of the earth...
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