Yunus Habibie
I wonder if the PVV paid Habibie to make those comments, because they’ve been political gold for them. Imagine the uproar if a Western ambassador had said similar things about an Indonesian political party?
I don’t know the basis on which Habibie won his tenure as ambassador to the Netherlands. There must be some connection with the former President Habibie. As someone with Golkar connections they must have thought it was better to send him far away where he could do no harm. Considering his lack of political nous, they should have kept him in Jakarta. Although the current mess might earn him a posting somewhere more Islamic, such as Somalia?
To make things worse, he has put the kybosh on any future trips by President Yudhyono by saying:
The purpose of an ambassador is to open doors and create opportunities, be ‘diplomatic’! Not to openly meddle in the politics of the host country.
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