Arude historian once said that Indonesia has two categories of heads of state. The first is presidents who like things that are living. The second is those who like dead things imagined to be living.

In the first category was Sukarno (he liked women who were living) and Suharto (he liked pre-dead cattle). In the second category was Habibie: he liked metal planes that could fly like dragonflies. And Abdurrahman Wahid: he likes graves, or mor