How Strong Ambition?
As Megawati's top officials struggle to assemble a winning position, some suggest the president bury a few old hatchets.
April 20, 2004
JOVIAL was not the mood at a meeting last Tuesday of the central board of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P). A gloomy air dominated, with both smiles and heated arguments absent from the room. The party's high-ranking officials, including its general chairman Megawati Sukarnoputri, opted for a simmering quiet. No humor met one moment in the meeting, when an advertisement appeared on a TV screen featuring Megawati dressed in p
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