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Amid speculation that Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) chairperson Megawati Soekarnoputri could still run for president in 2014, political analysts warned her to control her ego following the death of her husband and PDI-P patron, Taufiq Kiemas.

Arie Sujito, a political analyst from Gadjah Mada University (UGM) in Yogyakarta, said Megawati should heed her husband's call to bring in new faces to represent the party.

Your comments:

The 2014 election will be a tough one, as many candidates are pathetic and old. But I don't want Jakarta Governor Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo run for this election, as I voted for him for a five-year term as the governor of Jakarta and he must fulfill this task. Otherwise we won't be an accountable and responsible leader.

Yesi

People tend to forget that some who are vying for the presidential election are older than Megawati, but because they are men, they are not made an issue of.

People also fail to see that only Megawati ' as a national leader ' has promoted a number of young leaders to the national stage worthy of becoming future leaders, like Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo and Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo.

She is forward-looking and is grooming leaders for the future. All Taufiq wanted was to see his daughter on the podium and he was not interested in what was good for the country.

People fail to understand that the best CEOs in the world are those who have failed before and failure makes them better leaders. So it is best to give Megawati her chance.

After all, she only had three years of a five-year term as president, and resurrected an economy that was ruined by former president Abdurrahman 'Gus Dur' Wahid within a two-year period.

Wijaya Kusuma