In Indonesia, so one prediction goes, democracy will not last. Fareed Zakaria writes in The Future of Freedom, "Indonesia...was not an ideal candidate for democracy".

Zakaria is the editor of Newsweek International, and from his lofty office in New York he sees reformation in Indonesia as a wrong move. In 1998, the IMF and the US Government should not have pushed for economic reform to stem the monetary crisis. These demands, Za