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...President Abdurrahman Wahid arrived at the presidential palace in central Jakarta last October, his spirits and those of the country were riding high. After 32 years of Suharto's dictatorship and 17 months of interim rule by Suharto's deputy B.J. Habibie, Indonesia was finally getting a reformist President who preached tolerance and democratic openness. But as the blind Muslim cleric and his family mounted the palace steps, a cry rang out. A dukun--a Javanese soothsayer--who habitually accompanies Wahid called the party to a halt. He said he could see the "big man," the spirit of Suharto, standing...
UNDER HOUSE ARREST. SUHARTO, 78, former President of Indonesia who resigned amid civil chaos in 1998; for an investigation into charges of corruption and abuse of power; in Jakarta...
...Jakarta's island 5. General Bradley 9. Independent counsel who subpoenaed the National Archives and Records Adm. 12. Prison where director of Neshat was taken 13. Minuteman's home, once 14. __ Buttermilk Sky 15. Governor who signed Vermont's civil-unions bill 16. Cable inits. 17. __ soda (sodium carbonate) 18. Iron or Bronze 20. Subject of 9-Across's subpoena 22. Don, named chairman of Bush's campaign 25. He called drug profits out of line 27. Boxing Day mo. 28. Thickening agent in foods 30. Model of honesty 33. Small bills 35. Role for Patti or Madonna 36. James...
These rules were made clear to me in the late 1980s when I was in Jakarta running a small office supported by unions in the U.S. The right of collective bargaining was "not in the paradigm" one democracy-promotion expert told me; an American working for the World Bank lectured me on wage elasticity when I complained that the government set the minimum wage well below the poverty line for a single adult, in order to attract foreign investment...
...Nieman fellow has previously written for The Tempo, a newspaper based out of Jakarta, before it was shut down...