It looks like the only party with a genuine candidate for vice president. The Muslimoriented United Development Party (PPP) has backed its leader Hamzah Haz for the post. And it means business. The announcement was made at the Hotel Crowne Plaza in Jakarta on Friday, a day before the special session of the supreme People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) started.

Senior party officials and chiefs from 30 regional branches met there. The result: