BANGKOK -- ''I am not a woman prime minister,'' Indira Gandhi liked to say during her many years as India's leader. ''I am a prime minister.'' But the question, here in Asia, is whether there really is such a thing as a woman prime minister. More women have reached the pinnacle of power in Asia in recent years than in any other part of the world,...
One sign of Indonesia's democratic progress has been the obsession with opinion polls in the lead-up to Wednesday's presidential election, a vote that takes Indonesia a further step toward consolidating its democratic system. As it stands, incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono -- popularly known as S.B.Y. -- and his running mate, Boediono...

The five men and one woman vying to become president or vice president in Indonesia's election on Wednesday are familiar faces. All but one made their names during Suharto's 32-year military rule, which ended more than a decade ago. Half of them, tellingly, are retired generals. But after crisscrossing this archipelago for three weeks, the...
Megawati (f. 23. januar 1947 i Yogyakarta) var præsident af Indonesien i 2001-04.
Megawati er datter af Indonesiens første præsident, Sukarno.
Hun blev vicepræsident i 1999. Da præsident Abdurrahman Wahid måtte nedlægge embedet i 2001, blev hun præsident. I Indonesiens præsidentvalg 2004 tabte hun til Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.