Misbakhun’s Winding Road to Parliament
March 3, 2010
A HUGE poster rises high on one side of the main road at Desa Pasar Keling, Pasuruan, in East Java. The 9-square-meter billboard, marking the site as the headquarters of the Muhamad Misbakhun Center (MMC), bears the likeness of the man after whom the center is named. Muhamad Misbakhun, member of parliament from the Justice & Prosperity Party (PKS), poses in the picture with a black peci (traditional felt cap) on his head standing outside a buildi
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