Word: megawati
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...Nobody is sure whether the current coalition arrangement will work for Megawati. Conflicts could break out almost immediately when some of the parties that joined her in pulling down Wahid don't get the plum cabinet jobs they had hoped...
...Also, I think what we'll see with Megawati is that she believes more strongly in nationalism than in federalism, which was what Wahid was advocating. Wahid, in his own feeble way, was restraining the army from going in to the breakaway provinces and and committing the sorts of human rights abuses we saw last year in East Timor. I think Megawati is going to give the army a free rein to go in and crush the separatist uprisings in Aceh and Irian Jaya...
TIME.com: Indonesia has completed another tumultuous transfer of power, but how much will really change now that Megawati Sukarnoputri has replaced Abdurrahman Wahid as president...
...After beating Megawati out for the top spot, Wahid had been canny enough to offer her the Vice Presidency as consolation two years ago. But while his equivocation on dealing with secessionist rebellions - and his decision to bow to Western pressure and decolonize East Timor - angered the generals, Megawati made common cause with them as heiress to the nationalist mantle of her father, Sukarno, who had been Indonesia's first president. Last week, Wahid sought to head off his ouster by offering to transfer most of his authority to Megawati, but the Vice President and her backers appear to have...
...raise the temperature on the streets around Indonesia, but Wahid remains unlikely to stay in power. If the impeachment vote is carried - and all indications are that it will be - the chances are that he'll be removed from office sometime in August. But right now, few are seeing Megawati as the answer to Indonesia's continuing economic and ethnic turmoil. Which means that as messy or tranquil as Wahid's ouster may be, it's unlikely to usher in an era of calm...