PALACE PLAYERS

The excessive defense of President Yudhoyono by the presidential palace’s inner circle has reportedly become a source of problems. Their viewpoints are often seen to be distant from those of the public.

October 27, 2010

THE sky was overcast that morning. Groups and buses filled the open grounds surrounding the National Monument facing the Presidential Palace. The police set up layers of barricades on Wednesday last week.

It was exactly a year to the day when President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono began his second term of office. University students planned to hold a large demonstration in front of the Presidential Palace. Early that morning, before the protestors

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