Word: wahid
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...whose only common history was colonization by the Dutch - and it has effectively governed Indonesia for most of the past four decades. Although mounting violence by separatists in Aceh, Papua and elsewhere - as well as between Muslims and Christians in the 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...
Talk about living dangerously... As if firing Indonesia's most powerful military man amid rumors of a coup weren't risky enough, President Abdurrahman Wahid chose to do it by phone while on a two-week trip to Europe. The bad news for Wahid is that General Wiranto, disgraced by a government report this week that held him responsible for some of last year's violence in East Timor, doesn't appear to be going anywhere: He even attended a cabinet meeting Wednesday, in defiance of the President's orders. Although Wiranto had been removed from command of the armed...