Word: wahid
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...Suharto to operate the province's lucrative gas fields over 30 years ago. The decades-old rebellion has been fueled largely by popular resentment over the American company's relative wealth and that 80% of the government revenues its gas fields generate are diverted back to Jakarta. When Abdurrahman Wahid became President in 1998, he vowed to correct the imbalance and even talked about allowing Aceh to hold a referendum on independence, but those promises fell victim to government paralysis and a strong military lobby that didn't want to let Aceh...
...TIME: Some commentators suggest that you will be more inclined than Wahid to use the military and more repressive means to settle conflicts in restive regions such as Aceh and Irian Jaya. Is this your plan? Megawati: (Laughs.) The media may say this but I have had a bitter experience with violence. My whole family experienced it. We have laws and the 1945 Constitution, which makes it obligatory for me to preserve the unity of this country...
...TIME: How will your administration differ from former President Abdurrahman Wahid's? Megawati: It was (Wahid) who was more inclined to causing problems than his government...
...There are already regulations that state that the Vice President is supposed to be the President's assistant. But there will be a difference. The last annual session of the People's Consultative Assembly resulted in a presidential decree that handed more responsibility to the Vice President because of (Wahid's) shortcomings. That decree will be revoked and those tasks returned to the hands of the President...
...TIME: How will you survive until 2004 and are you afraid of suffering the same fate as Wahid? Megawati: If we follow the rules things will run smoothly. There is a clear separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches, but the two need to work together...