The Three Who Decide the Cabinet

Weeks of intense secrecy will ease when ministers are announced this week.

October 19, 2004

MUFIDAH Kalla, the wife of Vice President-elect Jusuf Kalla, is complaining. She says Kalla is keeping his mouth shut, even with his own spouse. All the quiet, she says, is not over a business matter or a development with their children or grandchildren. It instead concerns the makeup of the new cabinet. But once it became clear Kalla's team had won the September election, the new leader was happy to work alone in his room.

At one time, Muf

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