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04 Jul

Too good to be true? Not in Indonesia

Posted by cahn in Asia, Chinatown, East Timor, http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=19a59d8b58042210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&, Jakarta, Jusuf Kalla, Megawati Sukarnoputri, Southeast Asia, Suharto, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

There is a rule of thumb to regional politics that if something appears too good to be true, then it usually is.

Indonesia - Southeast Asia's most populous country and the world's largest Muslim nation - may be well on its way to proving the exception.