Gift from Gus Dur
Tuesday, July 31, 2001
Abdurrahman Wahid finally left the presidential palace on Thursday without bloodshed. Indeed his departure took place in a peaceful atmosphere. For the first time the ouster of an Indonesian leader proceeded without gunshots or casualties., as had been the case with his three predecessors.
This was not a mere coincidence. The Australian scholar Greg Barton, now writing a biography of Gus Dur, has interesting evidence to this effect. Accord
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