The monetary crisis, the May riots of 1998, the fall of Suharto, wrong moves over East Timor and lack of support for Habibie's government all served to unnerve the Suharto-era parliament. When a government panics, officials get fired, replaced or removed, as happened during the Wahid administration. If a parliament panics, there emerges a race to enact legislation, just as happened during Habibie's administration, the shortest in the country's