Word: sukarnoputri
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Megawati Sukarnoputri is in a bind. She promised George W. Bush her country's full support in the war on terrorism; on her visit to Washington on Sept. 19, she said, "Indonesia is always against violence. Terrorism is an act of violence so we will definitely fight terrorism." But back home, the fear of a backlash from Indonesian Islamic groups has her government whipsawing in its treatment of terror suspects. Megawati's dilemma may explain why, despite the testimony of its own intelligence, the government couldn't even bring itself to admit the existence of an al-Qaeda terrorist camp...
...Conspicuously silent on the flooding, as she has been in all affairs since taking office, President Megawati Sukarnoputri could have filled a leadership void but instead tried to shift the blame on the press for being too critical of the administration's sluggish response. With the government preoccupied with stemming the rising tide of public complaints, social and religious groups have had to pick up the slack, delivering instant noodles, rice, medicine, blankets and clothing to thousands of the city's 12 million residents unable to return home. Belatedly, the Governor freed up $50 million in aid but few believe...
...Nothing but bad news - and much worse to come - for the world's fourth most-populous country. The ineffectual presidency of Megawati Sukarnoputri will wreak ever greater damage as the good will that marked her assumption of office evaporates. Expect the accelerating collapse of the country's finances and civil administration, soaring lawlessness and vigilantism in cities, and chaos and bloodshed in the remoter provinces. Ethnic hatreds and independence movements will push the military into bloody reprisals. Indonesia looks headed for implosion, though in agonizing slow motion...
...that kept a dizzying range of religious, cultural and ethnic hatreds in check until then has all but vanished ?with sometimes horrifyingly bloody results. But the story of Sulawesi is different, and what happens there in the coming weeks is critical, not just to the future of President Megawati Sukarnoputri and the country's 210 million people but to Indonesia's neighbors. The ramifications might be felt thousands of miles away in London and New York City. For the villagers' agony was not the result of a random explosion of religious resentment and hatred but part of a carefully calculated...
...More optimistic Indonesians are calling Tom-my's capture a sign of President Megawati Sukarnoputri's commitment to rooting out cronyism and corruption. But it is a devastating comment on the state of the country's judicial system that the arrest of the 39-year-old Suharto scion after a year of mysteriously faulty wiretaps and failed raids on suspected hideouts has been greeted mainly with cynicism in the capital. Says human rights lawyer Todung Mulya Lubis: "So many elements of the old order will be controlling the process...