Word: wahid
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Nobody is sure whether the current coalition arrangement will work for Megawati. Conflicts could break out almost immediately when some of the parties that joined her in pulling down Wahid don't get the plum cabinet jobs they had hoped...
...McGirk: The first effect of the change will be that it will end, at least for now, the war between the president and parliament, which had completely paralyzed the working of government. Wahid went through four justice ministers and four attorneys general in the past four months. Nothing was getting done...
...Also, I think what we'll see with Megawati is that she believes more strongly in nationalism than in federalism, which was what Wahid was advocating. Wahid, in his own feeble way, was restraining the army from going in to the breakaway provinces and and committing the sorts of human rights abuses we saw last year in East Timor. I think Megawati is going to give the army a free rein to go in and crush the separatist uprisings in Aceh and Irian Jaya...
TIME.com: Indonesia has completed another tumultuous transfer of power, but how much will really change now that Megawati Sukarnoputri has replaced Abdurrahman Wahid as president...
...Perhaps. But the main reason the IMF is withholding the latest tranche of its $600 million aid package is because of concern over the stability of government. There had been no sign that Wahid was cleaning up the banking system or government corruption. But no one is all that certain that Megawati will embark on such a cleanup either...