The Way of Least Danger
Tuesday, July 31, 2001
Muslim politician Hamzah Haz made it to the vice-presidency thanks to votes from Mega’s party. Having Hamzah as her sidekick represents the path of lowest risk.
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Who would have imagined two years ago that Megawati Sukarnoputri and Hamzah Haz would now be Indonesia’s number one and number two? It was Hamzah who stopped the 1999 general election winner making it to the presidency, via a ruling from a few Islamic scholars that a woman president was ‘haram’, or banned by Islam.
"If Mega becomes president, we are not prepared to sit in the government," the United Development Party (PPP) chairm
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