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...businessman husband in key economic positions. It's too early to tell which way she's going to go. It's a positive sign that she has a vice president from one of the Muslim parties, who are seen as a counterbalance to the nationalist element in Indonesian politics. Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population, and having a Muslim vice president is helpful because many of the Islamic parties had previously opposed her on the grounds that a woman should not be leader of a Muslim country...
TIME.com: Indonesia has completed another tumultuous transfer of power, but how much will really change now that Megawati Sukarnoputri has replaced Abdurrahman Wahid as president...
...Presumably after East Timor, there will be a higher level of international scrutiny of Indonesia's responses to separatist movements, and pressure for restraint. At the same time, Indonesia desperately needs economic assistance from the West. Could there be a tension between her economic objectives and her nationalist objectives...
...CHINESE FARMS: BANGKA The Chinese in Indonesia are merchants and they're rich. That's not true, of course, but it's the assumption of many - a source of resentment that led to the pillaging of Jakarta's Chinatown in the 1998 riots. The Chinese certainly are neither on the island of Bangka, a two-hour ferry ride north of Palembang...
...seabed, employing motor-powered pumps to vacuum the sea floor onto patchwork floating trays in which they search for their prize. More often, a living wage, or the promise of one, is thought to exist elsewhere, which is why there is a constant stream of migrant workers flowing across Indonesia. Earlier, on the north coast of Java, among colorful, undulant boats sardined within a Tuban inlet, I met Lasmari, 47, who had worked for seven years in Kalimantan as a carpenter. He made decent money, but when he came home for a visit, he learned his son had died. Unwilling...