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...with this taciturn lady, something of an enigma. After almost three decades of marriage, Megawati's friends say the relationship is strained and sometimes openly acrimonious, and that the President frets at her husband's excesses but often can do little to control them. That's because she needs Taufik as much or more than he needs her. "If it weren't for Taufik, Mega would not be President," says former minister Ramli. For Megawati, who inherited the name of her father, first President Sukarno, but not much of his charisma, Taufik's ability to build coalitions with potentially hostile...
...When Taufik and Megawati married in 1973, he was penniless and newly released from a seven-year jail term imposed for his pro-Sukarno political activism as a student. Taufik worked his way up from selling kerosene door-to-door to owning nine gas stations that, he says, remain his chief source of income, netting him about $100,000 a month. Under transparency laws passed after Suharto's ouster, the couple made an obligatory declaration of their assets, which totaled some $6 million...
...Megawati's friends is the thought that the man who helped get her to the presidency could also lose it for her. Some Megawati supporters worry that the President could fall victim to her husband's increasingly brazen mixing of his personal, political and business lives. That's something Taufik himself is aware of. He told TIME: "This is a transitional period we're going through. We're going to make mistakes. There's a lot I have to learn, and I don't want to become one of the factors that brings down the President." For Taufik Kiemas, that...
...accused of capitalizing on his wife's position, Taufik Kiemas appears unruffled. The country's first First Husband was relaxed, almost jovial, when he met Time's Jason Tedjasukmana in the presidential manor to address his outsized role in Indonesia's political and business life...
...TIME: Many people say you wield considerable influence. Is that true? Taufik: Whenever there is a project involving a lot of money, people say Pak Taufik is involved. I don't feel I have any enemies. But there are people that have interests, and I knew I would become the target. The President is quiet; I'm the one who likes to get around. Whenever I travel and visit the regions, people talk and think I'm up to something. It's unfortunate and tiring but that's the risk I have to face...