A brief honeymoon

Akbar Tandjung has launched his counterattack. Will Megawati let the law fall victim to political expediency?

January 15, 2002

The love affair was quickly over. Six months ago, the Golkar Party and the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) were really close. With all the other major parties, with the sole exception of the National Awakening Party (PKB), they were shoulder to shoulder in the battle to topple President Abdurrahman Wahid, inviting Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri to take over the leadership of this country instead—which she duly d

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