Word: sukarnoputri
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...Tigers. The country already faced fresh political turmoil as President Chandrika Kumaratunga's United People's Freedom Alliance won parliamentary elections but failed to achieve an outright majority, forcing it to find new coalition partners. Neck and Neck INDONESIA Preliminary results from the parliamentary election showed President Megawati Sukarnoputri's governing Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the former ruling Golkar party battling for first place with about 20% of the vote each. The apparent erosion in support for the PDI-P, which won 34% of the vote in 1999, raised doubts about Megawati's prospects in July...
...qualify for the July campaign, a candidate's party must have won 3% of the seats in Parliament or 5% of Monday's vote. Analysts expect up to seven parties to make the grade. President Megawati Sukarnoputri's Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle is sure to be among them, but widespread disenchantment over her perceived detachment and inaction will probably cut into its support. The party might even be surpassed by Golkar, the political machine created by former dictator Suharto, who was forced to resign in 1998. Nostalgia is growing for the Suharto era, when prices were stable and economic...
...Nature will become angry if we are arrogant." Megawati Sukarnoputri, Indonesian President, after a flash flood blamed on deforestation killed more than 100 people in North Sumatra province...
...catalysts for these gains are a passel of measures enacted by the government to revive rural economies and stimulate domestic demand. This approach has been widely dubbed "Thaksinomics"?and suddenly, everyone is a convert. Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is a disciple and so is Indonesia's Megawati Sukarnoputri: both have adopted Thaksin-like programs for their countries. Even China, the engine of growth in the region, sent officials in July to investigate Thaksinomics' successes. "When Thaksin first talked about his [programs for rural recovery], everybody made fun of him," says Arroyo. "But one year later, other countries were also...
...evidence to vindicate Washington's prewar claims, the debate at the UN is reduced to the U.S. and its coalition partners painting themselves as stewards of Iraqi liberation, while skeptics and adversaries see their presence there as an unwelcome occupation which, in the words of Indonesia's President Megawati Sukarnoputri - a key U.S. ally in the war on terrorism - "has created far many more problems than those it intended to solve...