Dj vu with Different Results

May 25, 2004

MEMBERS of the General Elections Commission (KPU) may come and go. But Abdurrahman Wahids dealings with this electoral body seem destined to go on forever. In 1999, when the KPU was led by Rudini, Gus Dur almost failed to become a member of the Peoples Legislative Assembly (MPR) as a group representative. Gus Dur was then regarded as being partisan. Because this grandson of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) founder established the National Awakening Party

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