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Kwik Kian Gie admires Megawati. One night during the 1993 Extraordinary Congress of the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) in Surabaya, East Java, Kwik, who was then better known as a razor-sharp economic observer, seemed to be foreseeing the future. "PDI will become great and outstanding in Megawati's hands," Kwik then told TEMPO. In fact, at that congress, which was full of political intrigue, she was inelegantly levered out of the party through

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