THE fall of President Suharto in May 1998 left the Golkar Party on shaky ground. The 'party-non-political' machine that for 32 years had propped up the New Order regime was buffeted by numerous problems: demands for its dissolution, investigations into corruption cases, its vote share plummeted, and it disassociated itself from its prime movers. The Golkar Party in the era of Reformasi was split between continuing to support Suharto and taking a pr