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Strategies & Market Trends : Asia Forum

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To: Robert Douglas who wrote (9256)9/9/1999 2:59:00 PM
From: Bill Ounce  Read Replies (1) of 9980
 
SCMP -- All eyes on wily Wiranto's next move

scmp.com

VAUDINE ENGLAND in Jakarta
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The world is holding its breath to see if
Indonesian armed forces chief General
Wiranto can restore order to East Timor,
saving his military from accusations of
disintegration and his country from
foreign military intervention.

[...]

Interestingly, nor has the military's
overweening power in East Timor yet
prompted any of the brave demonstrations
by Indonesian students against military
involvement in politics, as seen last year
when Jakarta's own leadership was last at
stake.

Instead, Indonesia is hunkering down, as
if when push comes to shove in this
national psyche, a defensive circling of
the wagons is preferred to an open
admission of wrongdoing or a need to
change.

[...]

A popular line is that everything is out
of control and not even General Wiranto
can save it.

Time will tell.

But it remains entirely feasible that
General Wiranto, and perhaps the civilian
departments in Jakarta, do not yet see the
time as ripe to pull the plug on East
Timor's carnage.

[...]
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