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Other countries have secured temporary help because of U.S. diplomatic needs. President Megawati Sukarnoputri of Indonesia--a country plagued by violent anti-U.S. rioting since early October--stopped by the White House Sept. 22, when President Bush agreed for one year to lift 5% to 10% tariffs on 11 Indonesian goods, including copper, plywood sheeting, rattan, sorbitol sweetener and tuna. This deal was designed to deliver some help to Indonesia, with minimal impact on U.S.-based industries...
...crisis hit us in the mid-90s, and the rupiah went from 2,500 per dollar to 11,000 per dollar in about 90 days. Then came the anti-Suharto revolution, and the beginnings of Indonesian democracy. Then the presidential election, where a plurality of popular votes went to Megawati but the politicians in Jakarta decided to give the Presidency to Abdurrahman Wahid. Then this year another crisis led the same politicians to bring down Wahid and install Megawati into power...
...Asia, because of Jakarta's notoriously volatile domestic politics. Four years of economic meltdown and political flux has left the question of power in Indonesia - even of the archipelago's future integrity as a single nation state - dangerously unresolved. If the Islamic parties that previously conspired to keep President Megawati Sukarnoputri out of power use the unrest sparked by the Afghanistan raids to move against her once again, Jakarta could be in for another year of living dangerously...
...other hand, the military is solidly behind Megawati - probably even more so now that her agreement to support Washington's anti-terror campaign has revived the Indonesian military's relationship with the U.S., which had been in the deep freeze over human rights abuses in East Timor...
...inter-communal violence. That has created an atmosphere fertile for the Islamists to exploit skepticism over U.S. intentions in the war on terrorism. Although they represent no more than 12 percent of the Muslim population, Indonesia's radical Islamists are actively recruiting young men for training for jihad. President Megawati Sukarnoputri has plenty of political enemies among the mainstream Muslim parties that tried to keep her out of power, which leaves her having to tread warily while the campaign in Afghanistan continues...