Word: suharto
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...presidency, only to be denied by Wahid's backroom maneuvering. Although his own Islamic party commands only 10 percent of the seats in parliament, Wahid managed to shut her out with the support of a number of smaller Muslim parties and the party of the former dictator Suharto - and then showed a deft political touch by bringing her in as vice president in order to defuse the anger of her supporters on the streets outside...
...suggests the strategy may have backfired: On one side of the power equation, he had antagonized the generals by attempting to diminish the power they'd traditionally wielded and accepting independence for East Timor. On the other, he had made enemies of the business and political elite of the Suharto era by pressing corruption charges against the former dictator and his family. To Megawati's allies, he was increasingly being seen as a dangerous and unstable ally...
...Wahid had nonetheless served as a dressing on the open wounds of Indonesian politics, and discarding him may plunge the country into an even deeper round of turmoil than the one that dispatched Suharto in 1998. The forces that had sided with Wahid to keep out Megawati are unlikely to be willing to see her succeed the ailing president, and yet her supporters have always believed that by accepting the veep job she was simply biding her time to assume the reins. The military may have its own agendas, particularly in light of the mounting separatist violence in the outlying...
...powerful military, which underwrote the 30-year dictatorship of ousted president Suharto, issued a blunt warning Tuesday that if the politicians failed to resolve their differences and the turbulence on the streets was allowed to fester, the generals would have no choice but to seize power, once again. In other words, three years after the ouster of Suharto, Indonesia is still living dangerously...
...Wahid heads up an Islamic party that controls only 10 percent of the seats in parliament, but managed to beat out the center-left populist Megawati Sukarnoputri - who had won a plurality of the votes in the 1999 presidential election - by cobbling together a coalition comprising Suharto's Golkar party and a number of smaller Islamic parties. He then showed a deft political touch by bringing Megawati in as his vice president, to neutralize the danger posed by her supporters on the streets...