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Indonesia’s Grand Dame Megawati Asserts her Clout

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Aug 17, 2019
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Dismissed by some as being far past her political sell-by date, Megawati Sukarnoputri, the 72-year-old former president and Grand Dame of Indonesian politics, stepped forward last weekend during her party’s annual conclave in Bali as a power broker and bulwark against rising Islamic fundamentalism.

She gathered failed presidential candidate Prabowo Subia…

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