Shady Campaign Funds

A number of organizations monitoring the elections have found irregularities in the accountability reports on campaign funding.

June 15, 2004

THE sun had risen when the engines of a Fokker 28 started its engines at Halim Perdana Kusuma Airport last Tuesday. The aircraft was about to take off carrying Gen. (ret) Wiranto and his entourage on a campaign trip to Waingapu, on eastern Sumba Island, East Nusa Tenggara. The Golkar Party's presidential candidate, along with his success team, sat comfortably in the aircraft owned by PT Pos Ekspress Prima. On two well-upholstered sofas at the

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