Crooks still free

Only the euphoria engendered by the demise of B.J. Habibie could have blinded us as a nation to the reality that the election of Abdurrahman Wahid (or Gus Dur) as President was engineered by the corrupt Golkar faction and Amien Rais. This was because Megawati would not play the dirty politics of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) that Golkar revels in. How else can we explain that the party who won the general election received nothing from MPR lobbying?

Gus Dur is physically impaired and politically naive, when the constitution states that a president should be capable and physically fit. He is already asking Habibie for help in running the country and is making damaging statements to the effect that Indonesia will not accept international criticism, in spite of the Indonesian-military backed genocide and mass destruction of property in East Timor.

We, in defeating the democratic process in the MPR, and in selecting an unfit president who would rather kiss ass than kick it, must have provided consolation to the almost 50 percent of the corrupt MPR members who accepted Habibie's accountability speech, the TNI and to the crooks who still roam free.

NURHANI

Jakarta