The ‘Neolib’ Issue

June 2, 2009

CLAD in red and black, Megawati Soekarnoputri stood before some 1,000 or so businesspeople who filled the Surakarta Sabha Buana Building on Friday last week. “There’s no need to worry, we too are ordinary people,” said the presidential candidate from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) coalition. Then, clenching her fist, Megawati spoke again. “A populist economy is workable if

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