Between Politics and Order

Making an issue over the structure of the State Secretariat is just a waste of time. What is needed is a presidential law.

February 5, 2002

Rivalry between two people close to President Megawati seems to have created tensions in the State Palace recently. On one side, Bambang Kesowo has proclaimed the need for bringing order to the office of the Indonesian President. On the other, Taufiq Kiemas worries that his wife will be isolated by bureaucratic walls and thereby lose contact with her grass-roots supporters. The two of them believe they are in the right and as a consequence

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