Meeting of Muddlers

Indonesia's top politicians have talked for weeks about getting together to sort out the political crisis. But they cannot even agree on who should meet or what to talk about.

April 24, 2001

It is a nice idea. A `meeting of minds' between Indonesia's top politicians. They have been held every now and then ever since the fall of former president Suharto, as displays of national solidarity. Yet the country's problems have gone from bad to worse. Some people think that is what is needed now, to solve the crisis over President Abdurrahman Wahid's leadership. But they cannot even agree on who should meet. Wahid is holding out to his last ...

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