According to a recent poll, Indone-sians are the merriest people on earth: a mighty 51% of respondents on the sprawl ing archipelago told the Ipsos research firm that they are "very happy". It is a fairly safe bet, though, that the president, Susilo Bam bang Yudhoyono, was not one of them, nor were members of his ruling Democrat ic Party. Looking at their own plummeting poll ratings and rising political difficulties, they must feel almost as miserable as Hun garians and Russians, the gloomiest of the gloomy, according to Ipsos (see page 58 for more on this poll).
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