Welcome Bhutto

Welcome Bhutto

Pakistan's Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto arrives, accompanied by about 80 businesspeople, to strengthen her country's cooperation with Indonesia in various fields, particularly in the economic field.

Aside from the potential of economic and political cooperation, however, her personality is one of the main reasons her visit attracts such widespread attention.

Although Western (British) educated, this popular leader has not lost her Asian nature, particularly her nature as a Moslem woman -- something which many other Western educated Asian women have found hard not to do.

Together with Aung San Suu Kyi, the Myanmarese Nobel Prize winner, Bhutto is a symbol of the awakening of Asia's women. Both women are known, as is Corazon Aquino, throughout the world not only because of their family charisma, but because of their admirable personal integrity and intelligence.

Without exaggeration, Bhutto's personality and capacities invite admiration. In her country's political arena, which is never void of trouble, she fell only to rise again.

-- Media Indonesia, Jakarta