Groping for Light at One End of the Tunnel of Graft

Wednesday afternoon October 20, 1999: the People's Consultative Assembly/House of Representatives (MPR/DPR) building reverberates to the sound of hand clapping and emotional cries welcoming the election of Abdurrahman Wahid as the fourth president of the Republic of Indonesia. Glued to their television screens, millions of people follow every minute of the vote counting and are overwhelmed by the same feeling. Some Megawati Soekarnoputri fanatics ar

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