Crossing the Line
August 20, 2002
Rizal Mallarangeng*
*Director of the Freedom Institute, Jakarta
MPR cheats the people!" So shouted the Coalition of Non-Governmental Organizations amid the Annual Session of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) in Senayan on Friday, August 8. In a thick anti-politic atmosphere, the non-party activists in this coalition dramatically tore up the draft establishing a Constitution Committee prepared by the politicians in the MPR. |