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...Hendropriyono told reporters last Thursday that up to 20 other nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are being closely monitored by security authorities. "Should we find that these people are continuing to sell out their country, we may return to the old measures," he said, referring to the days of strongman Suharto, during which NGOs were tightly controlled and their workers routinely jailed. As for Jones, whose visa expires on June 10, she continues to press for a renewal but isn't hopeful. Still, she says, even if she's obliged to move to another country in the region, "That's certainly...
Elections often produce strange bedfellows, but Indonesia came up with a particularly choice union last week. Presidential candidate Wiranto, the former military chief of former strongman Suharto, announced that his running mate in July's election would be Solahuddin Wahid, deputy chairman of the country's Commission on Human Rights. Wiranto was in charge of the army in 1999 when hundreds died in East Timor at the hands of anti-independence militias allegedly funded and armed by the military. Wiranto continues to be dogged by these accusations: last week he was ordered arrested by a U.N.-backed court in East...
...before his arrest in March 2003, faces charges of attempting to build a terrorist organization - which his lawyers dismissed - and tax fraud, rather than the more serious charge of membership of a terrorist organization, which would require stronger evidence. Mega Setback INDONESIA The Golkar party of former dictator Suharto won April's parliamentary election with 21.6% of the vote, according to official results. The result is a blow to President Megawati Sukarnoputri, whose ruling PDI-P party came in second with 18.5% of the votes, down from 33.7% in 1999. Megawati faces re-election in July, and trails her former...
...hard to believe Indonesians could yearn for a return to the oppressive Suharto era. Wiranto, Indonesia's armed-forces commander during East Timor's successful fight to secede from the country, was indicted in February 2003 by a United Nations-backed court for crimes against humanity. He allegedly failed to prevent atrocities committed by his troops and pro-Indonesia militia against East Timorese civilians. (He has denied the charges and says he tried to stop the violence.) Yet amid the disgruntlement over Megawati's performance, Wiranto's Suharto ties no longer count against him. Wiranto and Yudhoyono, who is also...
...embrace opposition parties. The Islam-based Prosperous Justice Party, or PKS, has become popular with young educated urbanites by dropping its demands for Islamic law and painting itself as a corruption fighter. And Golkar's Wiranto is gaining by tapping into lingering nostalgia for the high-growth days of Suharto. During the party's political convention, Wiranto emphasized his ties to the strongman with a black-and-white video that juxtaposed his face and the dictator's. The biggest threat to Megawati, however, is Yudhoyono. The 54-year-old four-star general, who resigned from Megawati's Cabinet in March...