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ဂ် ိဳကိုအုပ္စုက ၾကီးစိုးသြားမယ္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ပရာဗမိုိုကေတ့ာ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲရံးႈတာက ိုလက္မခံခ်င္ေသးပါဘးူ။ ဒါေပမ့ဲ သ႕ူရဲ့
အျမဲတမ္းအတိုက္အခံမဟာမိတ္ အဖြဲ႕ဟာ ရက္မ် ားမၾကာမီ ေျပာင္းလဲမႈေတြျဖစ္လာမွာပါလို႕
အင္ဒိုနီးရွားႏိုင္ငံေရးသိပၸံ၊ ဂ် ာကာတာျမိဳ႕မွာ ႏူဆာဘာတီ ကေျပာပါတယ္။
အင္ဒနိုးီရာွးဟာ လဦူးေရအမ် ားျပားဆံးု၊ အထူထပ္ဆံးု မြတ္ဆလင္ႏငို္ငံျဖစ္ျပးီ၊ လမူ် ဳးိစေုပါင္း ၃၀၀ေက်္ာ
ကြဲျပားစြာရွိေနပါတယ္။ ဒီမိုကေရစီစနစ္ အရပ္သားအစိုးရ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲမႈ ခရီးစဥ္ကို
စစ္တပ္ကလက္ခံျခင္းဟာ အဓိကမွတ္တိုင္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
September 5, 2014, on page A12 of the New York edition , In Southeast Asia, Indonesia Is an
Unlikely Role Model for Democracy
By JOE COCHRANESEPT ဘာသာျပန္ေဆာင္းပါးျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ မြတ္ဆလင္ိႏိုင္ငံပင္
ဒီမိုကေရစီေျပာင္းႏိုင္သည္.. ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ စစ္တပ္ကဘာအခက္ခဲရွိပါသနည္း...။ (မိုးမခေဆာင္းပါး)
In Southeast Asia, Indonesia Is an Unlikely Role Model for Democracy
By JOE COCHRANESEPT. 4, 2014
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Gov. Joko Widodo of Jakarta will be sworn in as Indonesia’s president next month. Credit
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JAKARTA, Indonesia — For a while, it looked as if Indonesia’s bad old days had returned.
The Constitutional Court was hearing an appeal by the losing presidential candidate, a former
army general and son-in-law of Indonesia’s former dictator, who charged that the election last
July had been rigged and should be overturned.
Outside, his supporters clashed with the riot police and tried to storm the court building. The
police fired water cannons and tear gas.
But when the justices issued their ruling denying the appeal last month, something strange
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happened: The losing candidate grudgingly accepted defeat.
The most competitive presidential election in Indonesian history had come to a dramatic and
peaceful end. Next month, Joko Widodo, the governor of Jakarta, will be sworn in at the
Parliament building, completing a stunning rise from a child of the slums and carpenter to
leader of the world’s fourth-most-populous nation.
Sixteen years after Suharto, the authoritarian president whose corrupt and brutal military-backed
government ruled the country for 32 years, was forced to resign amid violent pro-democracy
protests, Indonesia has become a role model for peaceful, democratic transfers of
power in Southeast Asia, a region where they are becoming increasingly rare.
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Indonesians lined up to vote in the country’s presidential election in the village of Bojong
Koneng in Bogor, West Java Province, in July. Credit Bay Ismoyo/Agence France-Presse —
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In Thailand, the military overthrew a democratically elected government in May for the second
time in eight years. Malaysia and Cambodia have been mired in political turmoil since
parliamentary elections last year, which the opposition in each country claims were rigged.
Neither Malaysia, Cambodia nor Singapore has ever had a democratic handover to the political
opposition.
The Philippines has had democratic elections, but they have tended to be tainted by fraud and
violence, and the last two presidents jailed their predecessors.
And those are the democracies. Vietnam has enforced one-party Communist rule since
unification, and Myanmar is taking its first, tentative steps toward openness after decades of
military rule.
Indonesia, however, in addition to the presidential election, held successful general elections in
April in which nearly 140 million people cast ballots, a turnout of 75 percent. All of the
competing parties accepted the results.
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“There is no doubt that Indonesia is now Southeast Asia’s most democratic nation, and this is
something no one would have predicted in 1998,” said Marcus Mietzner, an Indonesia specialist
at Australian National University.
Indonesia’s record on other fronts still leaves room for improvement. Corruption remains
endemic in the nation of 250 million, religious minorities face discrimination and violence and,
according to Human Rights Watch, members of the state security forces still enjoy “widespread
impunity” for serious human rights abuses. But most of those areas, too, reflect enormous
progress since the dictatorship era.
A central reason for Indonesia’s success is that, unlike in Thailand, post-Suharto civilian leaders
in Indonesia sidelined the armed forces from politics. Lawmakers passed constitutional
amendments that stripped the military of its reserved bloc of seats in the House of
Representatives and ushered in direct elections, from president all the way down to mayor.
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Serving military officers were barred from government posts and political party activities, and
ultimately, Indonesia’s armed forces were forced to sell off their commercial business interests.
Thailand’s military, on the other hand, has repeatedly asserted its power during political crises
throughout the country’s modern history — there have been a dozen successful coups since the
1930s — and it draws its legitimacy from portraying itself as the sole guardian of the
monarchy.
Another crucial democratic advance for Indonesia, experts say, was its bold move to regional
autonomy across the far-flung archipelago a year after Suharto’s resignation in May 1998. That
decentralization of power broke Jakarta’s political monopoly and prevented the emergence of a
new, dominant national political force.
It also gave smaller political groups a way to survive even if they failed to win a national
election. “Forces that lose out in the center can still hold power in provinces and districts,
making them accept the outcome of political contests,” Mr. Mietzner said.
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To be sure, the move toward regional autonomy was also chaotic, blighted by the convictions
of dozens of regional leaders for corruption.
Mr. Joko, however, is a notable example of its success. Born in a riverside slum in the Central
Java city of Surakarta, the 53-year-old craftsman was twice elected mayor and used his
election as governor of Jakarta in 2012 to catapult himself onto the national political stage.
He will be the first president in Indonesian history not to have come from its Suharto-era
political elite or to be a former army general, and the first to assume the presidency having
experience running a government.
He will be sworn in on Oct. 20 in a ceremony to be attended by the departing president, Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono, who was constitutionally barred from seeking a third term. Such a
tableau has never been seen in Malaysia, Cambodia or Singapore.
Simon Tay, chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, said the notion of
handing over power to a political opposition had become an alien concept in those countries
because their respective leaders and governing parties had been in power so long.
“It’s the whole establishment, and they are not used to anything else,” Mr. Tay said. “The
nature of political change would be very sweeping, and there is a fear that their countries as
they know them would not survive.”
Indonesia has proved that this does not have to be the case.
The first years of democratization were tumultuous, characterized by bloody nationwide street
protests, ethnic and sectarian unrest that killed thousands, terrorist attacks by homegrown
Islamist militants and reluctance by the country’s feared armed forces to bend to civilian rule.
The country’s first democratically elected leader in four decades, Abdurrahim Wahid, was
impeached in 2001 after less than two years in office on allegations of corruption and
incompetence, after tense political battles with his rivals in Parliament.
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Yet Indonesia persevered, and in 2004, voters chose Mr. Yudhoyono in the first direct
presidential election in the country’s history. Previously, presidents had been chosen by a
legislative body tightly controlled by Suharto.
Mr. Yudhoyono’s opponent, Megawati Sukarnoputri, the incumbent president and eldest
daughter of Indonesia’s founder, Sukarno, accepted defeat and stepped down, although she
refused to attend his inauguration.
Indonesia’s latest election has not been wrinkle-free. The loser, Prabowo Subianto, conceded
defeat, but he continues to claim that the election was marred by massive fraud. After the
Constitutional Court ruled against him, Mr. Prabowo sued the government in the State
Administrative Court, which rejected his suit last week. And the coalition of political parties that
backed his campaign, which will have a majority when Parliament convenes in October, has
threatened to form a special committee to investigate the election.
While such a panel would have no legal authority to overturn the result, it could seek to dent
Mr. Joko’s legitimacy before the House of Representatives.
Political analysts, however, say this is unlikely because some of the parties in the coalition are
expected to abandon Mr. Prabowo in the coming weeks and join Mr. Joko, giving him a
majority and improving his ability to pass legislation.
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12. 9/28/2014 JOKOWI Indonesia
အလားလာေတြ႕ရပါတယ္။
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ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ မဲဆြယ္ျခင္း၊ စကားေျပာျခင္းမ် ားမွာ သမၼတေလာင္း ၂ဦးစလံုး ျပည္သူလူထုနဲ႕ ထိေတြ၊
သူတို႕ယဥ္ေက် းမႈအရ ဘယ္ညာ၊ ပါးခ်င္းထိ၊ လက္နဲ႕ႏႈတ္ဆက္ျခင္း၊ ကေလးမ် ားကို နမ္းရႈံ႕ႏႈတ္ဆက္ျခင္း စတ့ဲး
လူထုနဲ႕နီကပ္စြာ ဆက္ဆံျခင္းမ် ားဟာ အလြန္အားက် စရာေကာင္းပါတယ္။ ဗိုလ္ခ်ုဳပ္ၾကီးေဟာင္း၊
သန္းၾကြယ္မဟာသေူဌးၾကးီ ၊ ပရာဗမိုိုလည္း ပြင့္လင္းျမင္သာတ့ဲ ဟန္ပန္က ိုေတြ႕ရပါတယ္။
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ေရြးေကာက္ေက္ာမရငွ္ ေက် ညာတ့ဲ 22-Jul-2014 အဆံးုထေိစာင့္ၾကည့္ရပါတယ္။ အမ် ားစုကေတ့ာ (ေငြ-
အာဏာရငွ္မ် ား မတရား မလပု္ႏငို္ရင္ေတ့ာ) ဂ် ဳိကဝို ီအႏငို္ရရိွသြားျပီလ႕ို ဆံးုျဖတ္ၾကပါတယ္။
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Indonesian presidential candidate Joko Widodo, popularly known as "Jokowi", left, and his wife
Iriana, show their inked fingers after casting their ballots during the presidential election in
Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, July 9, 2014. As the world's third-largest democracy began
voting Wednesday to elect a new president, Indonesians are divided between two very
different choices: a one-time furniture maker, Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo, and a wealthy
ex-army general with close links to former dictator Suharto, Prabowo Subianto.
ၾသစေၾတလ် ဝန္ၾကးီခ်ဳပ္ Aony Abbott ကေတ့ာ ျငမိ္းခ်မ္းစြာျပးီသြားတ့ဲ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲက ိုခ်းီက် းဴလိုက္ပါတယ္။
ဆစ္ဒေနအေျခစိုက္ အကဲျဖတ္မ် ားကေတ့ာ ဂ် ဳိက ိုအႏငို္ရသြားျပီလ႕ို ေျပာၾကပါတယ္။ ဂ် ဳိက ိုဟာ
ၾသစေၾကးလ် ားလူထ ုႏစွ္သက္သျူဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အင္ဒနိုးီရာွးျပည္သူလူထုကလဲ စစ္အာဏာရငွ္အရပိ္ရိွတ့ဲ
ပရာဗိုမို ထက္၊ အရပ္သားမ် က္ႏွာသစ္ ဂ် ိဳကို ကိုပဲ ၾကိဳက္ႏွစ္သက္ၾကတယ္လို႕ ဆိုပါတယ္။
ၾသစေၾတးလ် ားနဲ႕အင္ဒိုနီးရွား ႏွစ္ႏိုင္ငံ ႏိုင္ငံေရး၊ စီးပြားေရး၊ ပညာေရး အဆက္အသြာ မ် ားစြာရွိေနပါတယ္။
(Jakata Globe)
မိုးမခသတင္းေဆာင္းပါး (Photo: AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
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အကာကြယ္မေပးထားသျဖင့္ ထိထိေရာက္ေရာက္ မေဆာင္ရြက္ႏိုင္ျဖစ္ေနသည္။
ထုိႏွစ္ဦးကို ျပည္သူမ် ားက တိုက္ရိုက္ေရြးခ် ယ္ ၾကမည္။ အင္ဒိုနီးရွား အေျပာင္းလဲသည္ ျမန္မာျပည္အတြက္ စံထားရသျဖင့္၊
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေရးအတြက္ စိတ္ဝင္စားစရာ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။
မိုးမခသတင္းေဆာင္းပါး (Photo: the Voice)
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General Elections Commission (KPU) on July 8, 2014 at 9:14 am
Wealth announced by election commission (here – converted to US$). Prabowo Subianto owner of 20
business companies which worth US $147.7 millions. While Jokowi wealth is US$ 1.6 million. Indonesia
politician has to declare their wealth.
Winner will most likely be known tomorrow evening. Election survey LSI poll ,Jokowi lead 46-42 per cent. But
late surge – retired general Probowo could win by 53-47 per cent. Link
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This story, posted at Moemaka
အေမရိကန္သမၼတအိုဘားမားစတိုင္ အင္ဒိုနီးရွားေခါင္းေဆာင္
(Published at Moemaka Magazine & the Voice news paper in Yangon)
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24. 9/28/2014 B. J. Habibie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie
3rd President of Indonesia
In office
21 May 1998 – 20 October 1999
Vice President none
Preceded by Suharto
Succeeded by Abdurrahman Wahid
7th Vice President of Indonesia
In office
10 March 1998 – 21 May 1998
President Suharto
Preceded by Try Sutrisno
Succeeded by Megawati Sukarnoputri
1st Minister of Research and Technology of
the Republic of Indonesia
In office
March 29, 1978 – March 16, 1998
Preceded by No
Succeeded by Rahardi Ramelan
Personal details
Born 25 June 1936
B. J. Habibie
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Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie pronunciation (born
25 June 1936) was President of Indonesia from
1998 to 1999. His presidency was the third, and the
shortest, after independence.
Contents
1 Early life
2 Studies and career in Europe
3 Career in Indonesia
4 Member of Golkar
5 Vice presidency
6 Presidency
6.1 East Timor
6.2 Suharto's corruption charge
6.3 The economy
6.4 Social issues
6.5 Education
6.6 Political Reform
6.7 End of presidency
7 Post-presidency
8 Family
9 Notes
10 Further reading
11 External links
Early life
Habibie was born in Parepare, South Sulawesi
Province to Alwi Abdul Jalil Habibie and R. A. Tuti
Marini Puspowardojo. His father was an agriculturist
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