Ada saatnya saya pengen baca tulisan saya tentang Megawati di
apakabar dulu.
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Subject: [INDONESIA-L] Megawati at Helm Would Be a Disaster
The Australian
August 10, 2000
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Megawati at helm would be a disaster
by GREG SHERIDAN
THE prospect of Megawati Sukarnoputri trying to carry out the functions of
head of government, presumably against the will of President Abdurrahman
Wahid, is something close to a nightmare scenario for Indonesia.
It cuts across the legitimate authority of the President, deepens the
constitutional confusion within the country and promises no relief from the
administrative incompetence and confusion that has characterised the
Government in recent months.
For all his faults, Wahid remains the legitimately elected President of
Indonesia. He also retains significant residual moral authority.
But he has been a very poor administrator.
Wahid has let it be known this week that he would do what he has long been
urged to do ___ appoint a de facto prime minister who would make sure things
actually get done.
As long as Wahid backed such a person implicitly ___ that it was clear the
prime minister spoke with the full authority of the president ___ this could
have been a promising move.
But forcing Megawati on to Wahid in this role is a recipe for disaster.
For a start, Megawati has no administrative capability. She shares every one
of Wahid's administrative weaknesses. Her office and schedule are in
perpetual chaos. She has almost no known policy ideas or competence. When
given a task, such as addressing communal violence in Maluku, her typical
response is to do nothing.
She is not an orator and has no significant political achievements to her
credit.
More importantly, the new position can work only if the president is
co-operating fully. Foisting Megawati on Wahid will simply pit them against
each other, which can only deepen the confusion and crisis at the heart of
Indonesia's Government.
Furthermore, Megawati has entered an unpleasant alliance with the old Golkar
party of former president Suharto and the military.
This is ironic, given that it was Suharto and the military that deposed her
father, Sukarno, Indonesia's first president.
But like her father she represents the secular nationalist strand in
politics, and Golkar and the military feel comfortable with that.
At a more sinister level, they probably also feel they can manipulate and
control her much more easily than they can Wahid, who, whatever else may be
said of him, has always been utterly his own man.
This is a dangerous development.
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