Scaledback expectations in Indonesia
Posted on 29. Jan, 2010 by admin in Blog News
By Sara Schonhardt JAKARTA – An estimated 7,000 to 10,000 people gathered across Jakarta on Thursday to mark the 100th day of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s second term in office. Waving banners and shouting into bullhorns, students, workers and activists lashed out against the former general’s failure to curb high-level graft in government. Their numbers at present pose little real challenge to the second-term president. While many here criticize him as weak and ineffectual, his leadership still represents a significant improvement on past heavy-handed military and incompetent democratic leaders. Leading Indonesia through five years of relative political and economic stability helped…
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Scaledback expectations in Indonesia