MUHAMMADIYAH members are beginning to lose patience. In the four years of democratization, said Ahmad Syafi'i Ma'arif, chairman of Muhammadiyah Central Committee, three presidents have come and gone, and none of them has been from his organization. And, "Change has yet to come," Syafi'i said, in an opening speech of the Tanwir (Congress) Muhammadiyah in Bali, two weeks ago.

It is clear there is a desire of this modernist Muslim or