IN mid-September 2009, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) of the City of Surabaya held a Special Working Meeting at Hotel Veni Vidi Vici, near the Heroes Monument. This meeting was held to select and propose candidates for the 2010 election of the city's mayor. The party cadres were not in the best of moods: just a few months earlier their candidate had lost in the 2009 presidential election. The party had also fared poorly in the