(23 Jul 2001)
1. Police officers standing outside parliament buildings which are visible behind
2. Police standing next to gate outside parliament
3. Various of police checking vehicles as the enter parliament complex
4. Close-up of graffiti reading 'Gus Dur resign' (Gus Dur is Wahid's nickname)
5. Various of police lined up shoulder to shoulder, at entrance to parliament complex
6. Close-up of barbed wire, pulls focus to parliament building behind
7. Wide shot of Amien Rais sitting down for press conference
8. Cutaway cameras
9. Set-up of presser
10. Cutaway of Hari Sabarno, Head of the Army faction in parliament
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Amien Rais, Chairman of People's Consultative Assembly:
"There is no right whatsoever for the president to make such a decree. That's why we shall react properly tomorrow morning by calling the special session very early and I can tell you it is a foregone conclusion that Mister Wahid will be dismissed as the president tomorrow afternoon and ultimately the Vice-President, Mrs Megawati Sukarnoputri, will replace the president - will become our new president."
12. Cutaway officials
13. Amien Rais leaving room
14. Tracking shot of tanks driving down street
15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Agum Gumelar, Security Minister:
"So I advise him not to declare this decree. He's insulted, he's very emotional and he said that this is already my decision to declare the decree. If you agree with the decree, follow me. But if you don't agree just - separate with me."
16. Cutaways of tanks outside presidential palace
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Agum Gumelar, Security Minister:
"The military must support the result - if the president's still in the palace then what shall we do? That is the question. I think, of course we wish, we hope, that the president voluntarily leaves the palace."
Question: "If he does not?"
Answer: "Just wait and see."
18. Various of tanks outside presidential palace
STORYLINE:
Indonesia's president, Abdurrahman Wahid, issued a decree early on Monday to suspend the national assembly.
It's a desperate attempt by the president to head off parliamentarians seeking his removal from office.
One Cabinet minister called Wahid's actions tantamount to declaring a state of emergency.
But the move appears to have backfired.
Assembly chairman Amien Rais said the legislature would ignore the decree.
Wahid would be removed, probably within hours, and replaced by Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri, he said.
Wahid tried to use security forces to stop the lawmakers.
He ordered them to stop parliamentarians from attending an impeachment hearing at the assembly.
But Jakarta police chief Major General Sofyan Jacob said the security forces would defy the president.
Security minister Agum Gumelar, a retired general, tendered his resignation in protest and accused Wahid of wanting to fire the commanders of both the army and navy.
He said the military did not support the decree and, "must support the result" of what the assembly decides.
He said the decree was the same as an emergency declaration - long threatened by Wahid, but resisted by the security forces.
Gumelar went on to say the question to be asked is what happens if Wahid doesn't leave the palace - and that everyone would have to just, "wait and see."
Observers say events may cause a split of some sort within the military.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Bagir Manan said Wahid's pre-emptive strike against the legislature was illegal.
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