Sunday, August 24, 2008

GUS DUR SHOULDN'T ABUSE HOSPITALITY



By : JOHN TEO

FORMER Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid parlayed his credentials as a highly regarded Islamic teacher into high office before getting his presidency unceremoniously cut short and suffering the ignominy of becoming the first head of state to be impeached in his country.

After his high-wire political act, the man many know simply as Gus Dur now seems to be employing his quixotic brew of religion and politics again, but this time in the potentially volatile environment of already fraught Malaysian-Indonesian relations.

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