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...risk now is that Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation, will fall apart just as Wahid's presidency did. The country is in deep trouble. It is emerging painfully from 32 years of the Suharto dictatorship, an era of forced social engineering and epic plunder. As the center collapses, ancient tribal and religious feuds have revived across the archipelago of 13,000 islands; 3,500 died in the violence last year. Unemployment is estimated at 40%, while corruption and economic bungling have kept foreign investment at "sub-zero," as a diplomat puts it. Most worrying of all, many...
...alone. Aceh's mostly destitute population has harbored ill will for the company ever since it cut a deal with President Suharto to operate the province's lucrative gas fields over 30 years ago. The decades-old rebellion has been fueled largely by popular resentment over the American company's relative wealth and that 80% of the government revenues its gas fields generate are diverted back to Jakarta. When Abdurrahman Wahid became President in 1998, he vowed to correct the imbalance and even talked about allowing Aceh to hold a referendum on independence, but those promises fell victim to government...
...Under Suharto there were no rules, nothing. You could be thrown into prison without first going to court. If you were found with anything to read, even a piece of torn newspaper, you could be killed. If you were a prisoner in Jakarta you could receive visitors?but for that...
...During Suharto's New Order regime, Megawati, Sukarno's daughter, served in parliament. After her father was overthrown, the New Order government gave her a house and salary as a member of parliament. But did she ever say anything about the way her father was treated? Did she ever protest when her fellow countrymen were imprisoned? Never. Did she ever call Suharto to task? Never! But then she's not alone. Even after Suharto resigned, no one would take him to task, no one dared to bring him to trial. Silently, through his New Order protEgE, he still holds power...
...President? Megawati: It is important to manage this transition smoothly. After I was given more responsibility for the handling of daily affairs in a presidential decree last year, I feel that I have gained much experience in administrative affairs. As a nation we face enormous problems inherited from (Suharto's) New Order regime. We have done a lot of positive things but we cannot yet say that we have succeeded. The main priority is to maintain the integrity of the country, to prevent disintegration. This republic was founded with the objective of unifying all of the regions into the Republic...