Word: wahid
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...ousted Suharto, Megawati won a plurality of the vote. And that despite the fact that she has few visible talents as a politician. She seldom speaks in public and rarely discusses anything approximating policy; and the fact that she allowed herself to be outmaneuvered for the presidency by Abdurrahman Wahid despite her election victory spoke to what many commentators see as an epic political ineptitude. But she had the Sukarno name, and the potent mystique it acquired in the Suharto years, and an abiding sense of entitlement that supporters see as explaining her reluctance to engage in politicking. But many...
...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...
...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...
...Very much so. So was Wahid, of course, but Megawati is much more so. In fact, people say she doesn't want to be president; she wants to be queen. She thinks it's her birthright to rule as the daughter of the father of modern Indonesia, but she doesn't want to concern herself with the messy responsibilities that come with power...
...interesting that there have been no demonstrations either for or against Megawati so far. Unlike the time when Suharto was overthrown, people now look at it as the usual shadow puppet game of the elite moving around and exchanging cabinet posts. For ordinary people, they see that Wahid didn't work, and now they'll try Megawati. But without any conviction that things will be any better...