Article: Indonesia awakes, South-East Asia starts to wonder. (other South-East Asian countries are concerned about what the implications will be for their region of the resignation of Pres Suharto in Indonesia after 32 years)

KUALA LUMPUR

The upheaval in Indonesia and a deepening regional slump are forcing the men who lead South-East Asia into a re-examination of their past ideas

''IT'S like a giant moving,'' said a Singaporean businessman interviewed by the local Straits Times newspaper. ''All the small people feel the tremors.'' His unease at the first stirring of Indonesian political life after 32 years of enforced somnolence under President Suharto is shared across the region. Indonesia's sheer size-200m people spread across more than 17,000 islands-makes its neighbours uneasy. Just as smoke from Indonesia's forest fires last year smothered and poisoned huge tracts of ...

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