The Risk of Local Parties
August 9, 2005
R. William Liddle
IF GAM, the Free Aceh Movement, is permitted to become a local political party, will the separatist movement in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam be strengthened? Would there then be more pressure from below to create local parties in other regions of Indonesia? If the answer to both of these questions is yes, will Indonesia then have passed the point of no ret