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...what sort of film would be acceptable? Perhaps the current release Merdeka, which paints Japanese World War II soldiers as heroes who save Indonesia from brutish white settlers. "Japanese today have lost their pride," says Katsuaki Asano, Merdeka's executive producer. "But were we really so wrong? The rest of Asia is grateful to us for helping them toward independence. I think Japanese moviegoers will see Pearl Harbor and feel disgusted at being portrayed once again as the bad guys...
Every day Carel Van Schaik heard the chain saws as gangs of illegal loggers cut through the trees across the river from his orangutans' forest habitat. And every day the fighting between Acehnese rebels and the army moved closer; mutilated bodies sometimes were found dumped in these very forests. Indonesia was literally falling apart, village by village, tree by tree, and that meant extinction was nigh for myriad species, among them Van Schaik's orangutans. Environmentalists once said the apes might be extinct in a matter of decades; their increasingly frantic warnings now spoke of just years. Orangutans need virgin...
...While the corruption charges were dismissed on Monday by Indonesia's attorney general (and they pale more than a little by comparison to the hundreds of millions the Suharto regime was accused of pilfering), Wahid's bigger problem is the competence charge. Originally installed by an alliance of Islamic parties and members of Suharto's GOLKAR party to deny Megawati the top job after she finished way ahead of all challengers in the first post-Suharto election, Wahid's erratic leadership alienated most of his allies as the country continued to languish in economic torpor and separatist rebellions threatened...
...Presidency as consolation two years ago. But while his equivocation on dealing with secessionist rebellions - and his decision to bow to Western pressure and decolonize East Timor - angered the generals, Megawati made common cause with them as heiress to the nationalist mantle of her father, Sukarno, who had been Indonesia's first president. Last week, Wahid sought to head off his ouster by offering to transfer most of his authority to Megawati, but the Vice President and her backers appear to have decided to go for broke: She stormed out of the cabinet meeting 15 minutes after Wahid made...
...Wednesday's vote may well raise the temperature on the streets around Indonesia, but Wahid remains unlikely to stay in power. If the impeachment vote is carried - and all indications are that it will be - the chances are that he'll be removed from office sometime in August. But right now, few are seeing Megawati as the answer to Indonesia's continuing economic and ethnic turmoil. Which means that as messy or tranquil as Wahid's ouster may be, it's unlikely to usher in an era of calm...