Guess What? Megawati

Guess What? Megawati

What did a state leader like Vice President Megawati
Soekarnoputri get from journalists as a gift for her 53rd
birthday last Sunday?

It's not expensive jewelry. It's not money, either.

A group of Jakarta-based journalists gave her a framed picture
of her kicking a ball, marking the kick off of a friendship
football game between journalists and officials of the Indonesian
Democratic Party (PDI) in 1995.

Excited to see what the journalists had given her as birthday
present, the Vice President tore off the gift's wrapper and took
a glance look at the picture.

Surrounded by journalists and a number of guests, Megawati
(also the incumbent chairwoman of the Indonesian Democratic Party
of Struggle -- the breakaway faction of PDI) immediately covered
the picture with her hands.

"Aah ... what a shameful picture. I'm ashamed of it," she told
the journalists, but with laughter.

The Vice President then invited the journalists to have their
picture taken with her.(imn)