President Abdurrahman Wahid and Rachmawati Sukarnoputri are old friends. They knew one another long before he became president. They were both there in the East Java town of Blitar in June 1992. There they marked the 22^nd anniversary of founding President Sukarno's death, Rachmawati's father and also that of her big sister, Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri.

At that time Rachmawati was chair of the Sukarno Education Foundation. She invited Wahi