[originaltext] Embattled Indonesian President Abdlurrahman Wahid warned yeste

Embattled Indonesian President Abdlurrahman Wahid warned yesterday that he would move against those who ignore him, after police and lawmakers disregarded his decision to fire the national police chief.
   Suroyo Bimantoro defied Wahid’s dismissal by attending a ceremony promoting police officers in Jakarta yester- day.
   He late met with senior legislators who accused Wahid of violating the constitution by firing the chief without con- suiting parliament. More than 100 senior police generals signed a statemeat backing Bimantoro, the state news agency reported.
   Bimantoro said he would only step down if parliament asked him to, which is unlikely to happen.
Wahid’s spokesman Yahya Staguf said that firing Bimantoro was constitutional and that the police chief had been meddling in politics.
   He said Bimantoro was trying to create a rift between the President mid Vive-president, who many lawmakers want to replace Wahid if they onst him durning impeachment proceedings in August.
   "Those actions will he considered insubordination and stem action will be taken if this is ignored," Wahid’s spokesman said.
   The president, facing impeachment over allegations of corruption and incompetence, which he denies, fired Biman- toro and several Cabinet ministers on Friday and condemned the police for their handling of recent violence in East Java, where officers shot and killed one of Wahid’s supporters last week.
   Wahid ordered an investigation into the violence and warned police officers on Saturday not to disobey him, saying that those who did not accept Bimantoro’s removal would be prosecuted for insubordination.
   Lawmakers were not lazed.
   "The police chief is still Bimantoro.  He is still active,’‘said Arifin Panigoro, a top lawmaker from Megawati’s pony, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle.
   The powerful army is also hacking Bimantoro, the Takarta Post’s Intemet edition said yesterday, quotiag unidentified sources.
   Several senior army officers met late Saturday to distress the situation, military spokesman Air Vice-Marshul Graito Usodo said, but he declined to say if the army was becking the police chief’s stand against Wahid, calling it "a political matter."     Wahid, a Muslim scholar, is from East Java and many people there revere him as a holy man and sage, regarding attempts to oust him so tantamount to sacrilege.