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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...
This is not the first time that PSLM has targeted Nike. Earlier this month PLSM hosted a forum with a former Nike worker from Indonesia named Haryanto...
...show's announcers charged that one percent of Nike's annual advertising budget is enough to pay all of the company's workers in Indonesia a living wage...