What would be the best way for the government to go to ensure that Indonesia becomes more democratic?
Your president said that Indonesia needs to establish the rule of law, that this was something that really needed to be consolidated and made to function really, really well. The other thing that I would say is that even long-standing democracies have challenges and problems. You look at the United States now, their Congress has become very polarized. So, there is never a time when you go to bed and you pull the covers over your head and say we have solved all the problems, its all going to work out. So, in your opinion, what progress have we achieved in trying to democratize? The President is proud of what has been accomplished here, but he recognizes that there is still much to be done. People used to say that Indonesia was too complex to be democratic, or that Islam and democracy could not coexist, or that you could not have modernization, that it would not work. Indonesia saw to it that none of that was true. Muslim majority society can move ahead economically, can move ahead in de
