Word: suharto
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...What then are the prospects for bringing an end to the rolling crisis that has gripped the country since the overthrow of Suharto four years...
...died in 1946, but of natural causes. He had allied himself with Sukarno. A wise choice, though his family was still marched out of its home at gunpoint by communist forces. Sinar hated the communists for that. "But we got our revenge," he says a little too gleefully, when Suharto purged the communists in the 1960s following Sukarno's overthrow, leading to the deaths of up to a million Indonesians...
President Abdurrahman Wahid is unlikely to survive an impeachment vote in the Indonesian parliament, where he controls only 10 percent of the seats. But if his supporters decide to contest his ouster in the streets, the latest twist in Indonesia's tortured post-Suharto politics may provoke a bloodbath. And that's exactly what Wahid's supporters were threatening Tuesday, as they poured into Jakarta from his East Java stronghold, bearing machetes, sickles and the 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...
...While the corruption charges were dismissed on Monday by Indonesia's 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...
...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...