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.

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