When President Abdurrahman Wahid started breakfasting at the official residence of Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri, people took it well. The president joked about it and just said he missed his old friend’s nasi goreng—fried rice, the Indonesian breakfast of choice she apparently cooks so well.

The public see it a different way. They view it as a sign of a close friendship between two national leaders that might just take Indone