This is not an American presidential system. Nor is it an English system where a government may fall on a parliamentary vote. An Indonesian coalition of factions or money-based amalgamation of interests will choose a constitutionally powerful president for five years. And Golkar has the most money. But even such clotting disappointments, if they occur, will be a vast improvement over political strangulation under Suharto.
Force is at issue.
Following the overdue collapse of the Portuguese empire in 1975, the Indonesian army marched into East Timor. From combat casualties, disease and hunger, perhaps 200,000 of 700,000 East Timorese died, mostly in the first few years, at the same time as Pol Pot's policies were exterminating a similar proportion of Cambodians. The intractable Timorese opposition and increasing international embarrassment moved Habibie, on January 27th of this year, to offer East Timor the option of autonomy within Indonesia, or independence. But objective ballot-casting has been complicated by independent field operations of the Indonesian army, funding local militias that have integration as their aim and terror as their means. They are incomparably more evident in field and town than Falantil, the armed independence group of the jailed Xanana Gusmao.