What Campaign?
The candidates used many ways to get around campaign regulations, with incumbent Megawati as the more ‘fortunate’ with bureaucracy on her side.
September 21, 2004
Time was short and the regulations constraining, but the candidates never lost their ability to outwit the system. Take Ahmad Fadlioli El Munir, head of the Betawi Rempug Forum (FBR), who managed to assemble people on the grounds of the National Monument last Thursday. Using all kinds of chartered vehicles, he transported thousands of members claiming to be members of the Peoples Alliance In Support of Mega-Hasyim to the park. “Lets toget
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