A new day has dawned in Indonesia. Hopefully. As of late last week the signs looked good. As the special session of the supreme People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) closed, Indonesia had a new president, Megawati Sukarnoputri, the popular darling and eldest daughter of its independence leader, Sukarno.

She replaced Abdurrahman Wahid, the nation’s first democratically elected president, unceremoniously dumped less than two years into