Gone Overboard

President Wahid has once again failed in his efforts to replace the top military leadership. Is the `mutiny' on the good ship TNI justified?

June 19, 2001

Abdurrahman Wahid has once again made history. He is the first president since the founding of the state to have openly accused the Indonesian military (TNI) of being involved in instigating civil unrest. Last Thursday in Manado in front of 200 of the leading citizens of North Sulawesi, he directly accused the TNI of being behind the disturbances that rocked Pasuruan, East Java, on May 30. "There are reports that it was soldiers wearing Brim

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