JAKARTA: Whatever her shortcomings, President Megawati Soekarnoputri is not a person who is easily intimidated. Doubters only have to remember her stubborn defiance of president Suharto’s iron-fisted policies toward the dissident faction of the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI), which she led from 1993 to 1998 and which later evolved into the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan).
This same characteristic might also explain her initial refusal to bow to popular demand to annul the recently announced hikes in fuel prices and electricity and telephone rates.
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