Just think of a pile of honey, which a pile of busy bees are clamouring over one another to get close to. This is a fairly apt description of Vice-President Megawati Soekarnoputri’s position in the current political map of Indonesia. She is the honey.

In her deafening silence, Mega is the center of power. She and her party’s votes in parliament hold the key to whether President Abdurrahman Wahid remains in office or not. And other pa