The `W2' Paradox
June 28, 2004
IN this presidential election, the W2 pair is a paradoxical couple. The first W is Wiranto, the presidential candidate nominated by the Golkar convention, who is a former adjutant of President Suharto as well as former Minister of Defense & Security and Commander of the Indonesian Armed Forces (ABRI, now TNI) during the New Order. This first W is still implicated as the one most responsible for the rioting which took place after the re
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