THE first 100 days of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s administration is turning out to be quite tumultuous. For a start, more than 30 days were spent on resolving the “lizard versus crocodile” case, which ended rather unsatisfactorily. The process included demonstrations, discussions, talk shows and many kinds of publicity, to excess.

This ‘attention-getting’ environment continued with the unfortunate sinking of a ferry and the