Natural Selection or Rotten Election?
The upcoming election of BI Deputy Governors has created tension between factions in the DPR. The PDI-P and KKI factions want the election postponed while others want it to go ahead. What's unsavory about this is that the in-fighting is all over positions and money politics.
October 23, 2001
THERE is a pitched battle currently underway in the House of Representatives (DPR) Commission IX. On one side stands the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), the largest faction in the House, together with the National Unity of Indonesia (KKI) at the opposite end, the smallest faction in the House. Gathered together on the other side are the Golkar Party, the United Development Party (PPP), the Reform Party, the Crescent-Star Part
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