Subversive Stowaway

President Yudhoyono’s warnings of a “stowaway” attempting to subvert anticorruption protests is seen as excessive. The remarks were based on reports of Molotov cocktails and an embittered ministerial hopeful.

December 15, 2009

THE sky above Nusa Dua beach in Bali was clear and blue that afternoon. The sun, although intensely hot, was already starting to set in the west. On the beach, that Wednesday last week, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono faced the ocean. Wearing tracksuit bottoms and a light-blue polo shirt, he sat cross-legged on a wooden seat in front the Laguna Resort & Spa, the hotel where the President’s entourage was staying during a working visit in Bali

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