Can the Portraits Stay?

PDI-P remains murky on Hamzah Haz's three conditions for partnershipand the president seems to be courting NU leader Hasyim Muzadi.

April 27, 2004

AN exchange of heated argument lasted the duration of the meeting. One by one, high-level officials from the United Development Party (PPP) reiterated strong opinions. At Jalan Madiun in Central Jakarta, the guest room at the official residence of Vice President Hamzah Haz—who is also PPP party chairman—was the site of a battle of words. The man chairing the meeting, PPP Deputy Chairman Alimarwan Hanan, might have given everyone an

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