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Asep, a Jakarta parking-lot attendant, rejoiced in 1998 when Indonesian strongman Suharto was overthrown after three decades of authoritarian rule. But democracy hasn't proved to be quite the boon he and so many other Indonesians expected. In some ways, says Asep, his life is worse now than ever before. Under Suharto, he says, at least he only had to bribe one person?a stadium security officer?for the right to manage the lot at Senayan Stadium. But now, Asep complains, he is routinely approached by people claiming to be policemen, soldiers, sports department officials and political-party officers...
...Asian economy remains a diagram of an extended family tree connecting clans that make things to those that finance them, with dotted lines sometimes leading to the government. The payoff for decades of commercial consanguinity has varied from nation to nation. For more than 30 years the impoverished Indonesian archipelago was run as a mom-and-pop operation by the ruling Suharto family. In contrast, South Korea's economic miracle was engineered by some 30 ambitious conglomerates called chaebol, almost all family controlled, while the commercial drive of industrious Hong Kong and Taiwan emanated from anthills of small, adroit family...
...country already faced fresh political turmoil as President Chandrika Kumaratunga's United People's Freedom Alliance won parliamentary elections but failed to achieve an outright majority, forcing it to find new coalition partners. Neck and Neck INDONESIA Preliminary results from the parliamentary election showed President Megawati Sukarnoputri's governing Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the former ruling Golkar party battling for first place with about 20% of the vote each. The apparent erosion in support for the PDI-P, which won 34% of the vote in 1999, raised doubts about Megawati's prospects in July's presidential...
...When Indonesian voters went to the polls on Monday to elect a new Parliament, it was expected to be the largest single-day electoral exercise in history. With up to 147 million voters casting ballots, the results won't come in for days, but they'll be a vital indicator of what could happen in an even more momentous election on July 5, when the country will directly elect its President for the first time ever. Monday's results are important for any political party that wants to field a presidential candidate, says Kevin O'Rourke, author of Reformasi...
...qualify for the July campaign, a candidate's party must have won 3% of the seats in Parliament or 5% of Monday's vote. Analysts expect up to seven parties to make the grade. President Megawati Sukarnoputri's Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle is sure to be among them, but widespread disenchantment over her perceived detachment and inaction will probably cut into its support. The party might even be surpassed by Golkar, the political machine created by former dictator Suharto, who was forced to resign in 1998. Nostalgia is growing for the Suharto era, when prices were stable and economic...