JAKARTA: The speaker of Indonesia's top legislative body yesterday compared US President George W. Bush to Joseph Stalin and urged Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri to curb the influence of her businessman husband, calling him “a disservice to this nation.”
In a wide-ranging interview, Amien Rais also said the perpetrators of last year's Bali bombings should be given the death penalty to deter other would-be terrorists.
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