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...almost as if he feels sinful if he leaves some aspect neglected." Old friends from the military have similar recollections. "He won't rock the boat," concludes retired General Agus Wijoyo, who served with Yudhoyono in East Timor and at military headquarters in Jakarta. "Those who want faster reform will see him as too slow...
...Labor-reform efforts, Sari says, will probably be met by strikes and protests?the kind of civil unrest Yudhoyono would like to avoid. The potential wrath of the unions was on display Sept. 21 outside the High Court in central Jakarta. Hundreds of workers laid off last year from aircraft maker PT Dirgantara Indonesia raged in protest when the court rejected their claim that layoffs were conducted illegally. Nandang Rusmana, a mechanic who worked at Dirgantara for 20 years, is still unemployed more than a year after he lost his job and is borrowing money from his family to keep...
...National University, argues that the core of Yudhoyono's problem is "indecision on policy issues." He points out that cleaning up the military was already needed when Yudhoyono held the powerful position of Coordinating Minister of Politics and Security under Wahid and Megawati. "There was no initiative on military reform from his office during his three years as Security Minister...
...President will also need to engage with parliament, in which his party controls only 57 seats out of 550. "They could refuse to pass legislation in areas such as judicial reform and corruption," says Damien Kingsbury, a lecturer in Indonesian affairs at Deakin University in Melbourne. "And that would badly affect his economic platform...
...where the final battles of this campaign will be fought. Anyone can carry a weapon. The traditional heralds compete with the authors and bloggers and filmmakers and cable barkers and radio rabble-rousers who appeal to those who tailor the news to fit their political niche. Campaign-finance reform has changed the channels through which the money moves, restricting fund raising by the candidates but filling the war chests of allied guerrillas. Above all, the stakes of the outcome seem to change the rules. If you believe that your children's safety depends on the right guy winning, what tactics...