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Web-only Exclusives November 30, 2000 From Our Correspondent: Hirohito and the War A conversation with biographer Herbert Bix From Our Correspondent: A Rough Road Ahead Bad news for the Philippines - and some others From Our Correspondent: Making Enemies Indonesia needs friends. So why is it picking fights? |
REPORT CARD
One hundred days is not much time to turn around a nation with the kind of problems facing Indonesia. But progress can be assessed.
| CATEGORY | GRADE | COMMENTS |
| MATH | C- | Subsidies and budget deficits |
| (Economic-crisis | threaten hyperinflation. Banks | |
| management) | and rupiah remain stricken. | |
| CIVICS | C | Ethnic Chinese shaken despite |
| (National Stability) | assurances. Lawlessness on the | |
| rise; fear of division grows. | ||
| POLITICAL SCIENCE | B | Now controls Golkar, and has the |
| (Power-base | military's support. But still seen as | |
| building) | weak and responsive to pressure. | |
| INTERNATIONAL | B- | Reports of ethnically-motivated |
| STUDIES | violence hurt China relations. | |
| (Foreign relations) | East Timor autonomy offer helps in | |
| West. ASEAN barely a blip on radar. | ||
| MORALS | D | Unlikely to go after Suharto wealth |
| (Fighting corruption) | even if inquiry is completed. No | |
| attention to reform of bureaucracy. | ||
| PERSONAL | A- | Successfully adopted un-Suharto |
| PRESENTATION | style. However, substance - to | |
| (Image makeover) | some - is lacking. | |
| OVERALL | B- | Better than the immediate past, |
| but how will he fare in the near | ||
| future? The first 100 days suggests | ||
| he has much work ahead. |
Habibie The first 100 days - not all bad, but not great
The Suhartos Living outside the limelight
Interview "I refuse to be called a 'transition president'"
Batam The place that made the man
ASEAN Don't expect Jakarta to lead
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