Soeharto's spech 'incomplete'<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The ousted leader of the Indonesian Democratic
\nParty (PDI), Megawati Soekarnoputri, said yesterday that
\nPresident Soeharto's accountability speech was incomplete as it
\ndid not include sufficient details on issues such as political
\ndevelopment.<\/p>\n
Addressing the media at her residence in Kebagusan
\nsubdistrict, South Jakarta, the eldest daughter of the late
\npresident Sukarno said the speech neglected basic principles
\nstipulated in the 1945 Constitution and the 1993\/1998 State
\nPolicy Guidelines.<\/p>\n
"The government has ignored the development of the political
\nand legal sectors, and... shifted from people's sovereignty to
\npower sovereignty," she said.<\/p>\n
She pointed to the May general election which she claimed
\nneglected the right to free choice of some 20 million PDI
\nmembers, namely her supporters.<\/p>\n
Megawati was dethroned in a government-sponsored PDI congress
\nin June 1996 and replaced by Soerjadi. She was also barred from
\ncontesting the general elections last May because the government
\nonly recognized the Soerjadi-led PDI.<\/p>\n
Since then she has been waging a legal battle against her
\nrivals, and has become a critical commentator of many government
\npolicies and Indonesian political system.<\/p>\n
She was among those who openly opposed the renomination of
\nPresident Soeharto to his seventh consecutive term, urging the
\nPresident to take a lesson from her own father's mistakes.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, Megawati said the prolonged monetary crisis would
\nnot have happened if the country was free from corruption,
\ncollusion and nepotism.<\/p>\n
The press conference yesterday was attended by local and
\nforeign correspondents. Also present were staff from the U.S. and
\nAustralian embassies and youth leaders from the Indonesian
\nNationalist Students Movement, the Democratic Youths, the
\nIndonesian Catholic Youths Movement, the Indonesian Christian
\nStudents Movement and the Indonesian Islamic Students
\nMovement. (imn)<\/p>",
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