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...totally polarized what was left of civil society in Aceh so that there is effectively no third way between Jakarta and G.A.M.," warns Damien Kingsbury, an Indonesia specialist at Melbourne's Deakin University. Some hope the situation will improve after Indonesia's July 5 presidential election. Retired military chief Wiranto, one of the three leading candidates, told TIME that "the use of force" in Aceh is a mistake, noting: "the problem of Aceh is not a security problem but a problem of conscience. The issue is returning dignity to the Acehnese, giving them rights with a genuine regional autonomy...
Elections often produce strange bedfellows, but Indonesia came up with a particularly choice union last week. Presidential candidate Wiranto, the former military chief of former strongman Suharto, announced that his running mate in July's election would be Solahuddin Wahid, deputy chairman of the country's Commission on Human Rights. Wiranto was in charge of the army in 1999 when hundreds died in East Timor at the hands of anti-independence militias allegedly funded and armed by the military. Wiranto continues to be dogged by these accusations: last week he was ordered arrested by a U.N.-backed court in East...
...pairing just might work. Wiranto is viewed as a vibrant alternative to President Megawati Sukarnoputri, who is running for re-election, and his Golkar party won the biggest number of seats in April's legislative polls. The campaign is humming along nicely: according to the Jakarta Post, Wiranto raised $450,000 at a campaign dinner last week by treating his audience of businessmen to renditions of Javanese love songs. Strange bedfellows can sometimes make sweet music...
...Megawati Sukarnoputri, whose ruling PDI-P party came in second with 18.5% of the votes, down from 33.7% in 1999. Megawati faces re-election in July, and trails her former Security Minister, retired army general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. She also faces competition from another ex-general, the Golkar candidate, Wiranto, who has been indicted for crimes against humanity by a U.N.-backed court in East Timor. Power Play HONG KONG In the biggest show of force since Hong Kong's 1997 handover to China, eight Chinese naval vessels cruised through the territory's harbor to mark the navy's 55th...
...Restiveness among the masses is driving voters to embrace opposition parties. The Islam-based Prosperous Justice Party, or PKS, has become popular with young educated urbanites by dropping its demands for Islamic law and painting itself as a corruption fighter. And Golkar's Wiranto is gaining by tapping into lingering nostalgia for the high-growth days of Suharto. During the party's political convention, Wiranto emphasized his ties to the strongman with a black-and-white video that juxtaposed his face and the dictator's. The biggest threat to Megawati, however, is Yudhoyono. The 54-year-old four-star general...