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...Islamic parties and former Suharto supporters that kept her out of the top job last time may not be in a hurry to install her. It's not even clear that she wants the top job right now, when increasingly volatile ethnic and religious tensions in Aceh, Irian Jaya, Ambon, the Moluccas and elsewhere are threatening to break apart the archipelago nation. Meanwhile, the economy languishes in the doldrums as foreign investors steer clear of Jakarta's political instability...
...funny thing was that during the cricket scandal, Jadeja's most furious defender was Jaya Jaitly, who is the companion of the defense minister and whose name has come up in connection with the latest scandal. Jadeja had been a kind of fiancé to her daughter. So it suggests that corruption may run in different directions, but they're all interlinked...
...Wahid's Indonesia, however, that's par for the course. There are bigger, more troubling imponderables. The country seems to be falling apart in so many different ways. Was Kalimantan's carnage an anti-migrant pogrom similar to those in Irian Jaya? Or was it more like the separatist-incited violence in Aceh? Or was it similar to the bloody religious rivalry between Christians and Muslims in Ambon? When the Dayaks carved out the hearts and heads of their victims, was this the kind of tribal blood sport that would have proliferated in Indonesia had former President Suharto not exerted...
...Jakarta's former power over finance and administration has been passed down to some 360 regencies?what would be called counties in other countries?and municipalities. It's a radical shift in the way Indonesia is governed, decided upon in direct response to restive populations in Aceh, Irian Jaya and Riau. The autonomy program, however, also encourages resentments and jealousies as it disenfranchises some local bureaucrats. Soon after the killing began in Kalimantan, police arrested three men for paying 20 million rupiah ($2,129) to incite violence between Dayaks and Madurese. Two of the men were civil servants appointed...
...tussle. During the crucial Thursday vote, the 38 military and police delegates in parliament went along with the warning motion. The vote, say military analysts, indicates that the armed forces are growing impatient with Wahid. They criticize his indecisive handling of secessionst uprisings in Aceh and Irian Jaya and of the fighting between Muslims and Christians in the Maluku islands, which has claimed more than 4,000 lives in the past two years...