The Risk of Local Parties

August 9, 2005

R. William Liddle

  • Professor of political science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

    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

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