Overseas Trips: Who Benefits?

What is the benefit to the government of President Abdurrahman Wahid’s relaxed and seemingly informal foreign trips?

October 9, 2000

For the President, the world is a small sphere. Only a year into his presidency, he has traveled to many countries. He has crossed five continents and two oceans, and visited many heads of state, looking for support and signing various agreements.

Abdurrahman hit the road again from September 25 to October 4. As if tracing the map of the earth, the President, accompanied by his wife, two daughters, a number of ministers and dozens of journalis

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