Word: sukarnoputri
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...killer blow for Wahid came from his vice president, Megawati Sukarnoputri, who leads the largest party in parliament. Although President Wahid announced after a meeting with Megawati Wednesday that he had her support, her party sided with the anti-Wahid majority in parliament Thursday. No surprises there - Megawati won a plurality of votes in the last election and had assumed she was headed for the 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...
...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...
...degree turnabouts on some policy questions, it's effectively neutralized most challenges thus far to his presidency - an office he acquired only by his supreme skill at backroom politicking. Despite finishing a distant third in last spring's polls, Wahid managed to shut out the presumptive president, Megawati Sukarnoputri, by cobbling together a voting bloc of Islamic parties and Suharto supporters, and then immediately headed off the violent reaction in the streets by naming Megawati as his deputy. But while he's almost improbably acquired the support of the military against Wiranto, keeping the generals on board could prove...
...Moluccas - is threatening to break the country apart, Wahid has restrained the military from maintaining the traditional order by brute force. The waning of their own authority may make the top brass more sympathetic to Wiranto's own plight, while the nationalist party of Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri has fiercely opposed Wahid's proposal to give Indonesia's various regions more autonomy as part of a federation. Megawati presided over the cabinet meeting attended by Wiranto Wednesday, and had traveled to some of Indonesia's trouble spots with the general over the weekend...
...read the words out loud from the folder thrust into his hands. It was an awkward beginning in front of the national assembly for Abdurrahman Wahid, a stroke victim who last Wednesday became the first freely elected President of Indonesia. And it was a bitter denouement for Megawati Sukarnoputri, the presumed front runner who had been left sucking for air by a series of political maneuvers she hadn't even seen coming...