Presidential Candidates' Success Teams

The KPU has announced the five pairs of presidential and vice-presidential candidates for the upcoming election. Each ticket is backed by a multi-layered success team; some appear solid, others formed rather haphazardly.

May 25, 2004

ANAS Urbaningrum sat up in shock as he read the SMS messages that had come to his cell phone. "If you don't qualify Gus Dur, we will chase you right up to the grave!" read one. Similar messages came in, one after another last Saturday afternoon, as the Chairman of the Working Group on the Presidential Election rushed to a plenary meeting at the General Elections Commission (KPU) offices. The meeting was to decide who the presidential

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