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"I Will Not Sue Those Who Call Me Nut:" Indonesian President
Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid Sunday said that he will not file lawsuit against the doctors who have insinuated that the president is insane.
"There are people and doctors who said that I'm insane. Let them say so," Wahid was quoted by the Jakarta Post.com online news service as saying at the 208th commemoration of influential Muslim cleric Khotni Ajani in Amaliah mosque in Ciawi, West Java.
Several doctors gave their opinions at the House of Representatives (DPR) without conducting any check on Wahid, calling him "psychologically and mentally disturbed" and that the stroke that hit him sometime ago has caused "brain damage which explain the president's peculiar behavior."
"I will not sue them. Let the security authorities handle that as the authorities have suspected efforts to contempt the president," Wahid said.
"If God can forgive people's sins ... why can't I?" he was quoted as saying.
The state of Wahid's health became an issue again on Saturday when he canceled a routine health checkup at a Jakarta military hospital without explanation.
However, the president said he was healthy and fit enough to stay in office. His doctors and aides said the president would proceed with a one-day visit to Thailand on Monday.
The president also said on Sunday that some of the DPR members were still bugging him.
The DPR has twice censured Wahid this year and has opened the way for possible impeachment as early as July.
The DPR is scheduled to meet at the end of this month to decide whether to ask the People's Consultative Assembly, the country's highest law-making body, to start impeachment proceedings.
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