I think the reason Suharto managed to control Indonesia well
during thirty two year in power is because managed the economy
fairly well but do not forget the one hing he had the support of
the army.
The Indonesian economy was not well managed, but Suharto had the
military.
People can managed to get job well but in the 1997 economic crisis,
people were retrenched n could not gey job easilty, prices of basic
goods were increasing. There is a saying that said hungry people is
always angry. If he had stayed on in power, it will be the same
because the people had already not trusted him already, army
leadership is also split. After Suharto stepped down, the economy
is in a disaster.
Had Suharto wanted to stick to pwoer, he would have been able to
do so, I guess he lost the stomach for more violence.
The Habibie govt tried to pick up whatever pieces it could, only
for eighteen months.
Habibie was a coconut head.
The time is too short to do anything positive. Wahid also managed
to do something positive by allowing Chinese Indonesian to
celebrate Chinese New Year openly for the first time in Indonesia,
considering the fact that they are being discrmininated. This
encouraged Chinese Indonesian to invest in Indonesia once
again.
Wahid did try but he kept reshuflling the cabinet and got too
many people angry.
Megawati done little to Indonesia.
Mega is downright corrput and bloody useless.
Yudoyono is trying hard to clamp down on corruption, considering
that it is a
culture for many year. Look at the Governor of Aceh already put in
prison, Banten
governor already stripped of his position. Terrorist like the JI
managed to get support is because there r many poor people who r
desperate to survive, to get hungry on the street is a terrible
thing.
Bambang has a great image. But his job is really tough. If the
Isians don't support him, he won't get much done either.