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A meeting of 124 army generals and ex-generals agreed to reject the president's 'planned' decree to dissolve the legislature. The president says there was no such decree. So who is fooling whom?
May 22, 2001
Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri suddenly cut short her trip to Singapore. At 1am last Saturday, Mega flew back into Jakarta. An hour later, in the dark of the early hours, a number of key figures in her Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) were called to the vice president's house in Jalan Teuku Umar. They included big names like Theo Syafei and legislative faction leader Arifin Panigoro. Clearly something big was up.
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