A CARD was slipped under door last Thursday on the 17th floor of Jakarta’s Mulia Hotel. Kiai Nuruddin A. Rahman, the room’s occupant, retrieved the colored card. “It’s a request for support from Bambang Soeroso,” Kiai Nuruddin told Tempo, who was interviewing him that afternoon.

The canvassing team of Bambang Soeroso was indeed working frantically. Though still lacking full support from his region, Bambang, evidentl