Word: megawati
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...implacable conviction that the parliamentary challenge to the President is an assault on the 40-million strong Muslim organization he heads. Their mission: To stop parliament from voting to impeach Wahid on charges of corruption and incompetence, which would be a prelude to his ouster and likely replacement by Megawati Sukarnoputri, Indonesia's most popular politician, whose party controls some 35 percent of the seats in parliament and who enjoys the all-important support of the military...
...attorney general (and they pale more than a little by comparison to the hundreds of millions the Suharto regime was accused of pilfering), Wahid's bigger problem is the competence charge. Originally installed by an alliance of Islamic parties and members of Suharto's GOLKAR party to deny Megawati the top job after she finished way ahead of all challengers in the first post-Suharto election, Wahid's erratic leadership alienated most of his allies as the country continued to languish in economic torpor and separatist rebellions threatened to break apart the 13,000-island archipelago that constitutes the world...
...long at all. First, they want to get rid of Wahid, then give Megawati some semblance of an opportunity to rule. And then, when it looks like things don't get better, they'll make their own move...
...military backing Megawati if she's politically weak? The military have long been held to be the guarantor of Indonesia's stability, and they can't be comfortable with the turmoil that has continued, almost uninterrupted, since the fall of the Suharto regime...
...other hand, the generals may be quite happy to see a week president, because that would give them more power. The military is going to move to fill any political vacuum that arises, and nobody believes that Megawati will last very long. And waiting for her to fail are, on the one hand, ambitious politicians like parliamentary speaker Amien Rais, and on the other hand, the generals...