Sabam Sirait: "They used to laugh at me, but now I'm vindicated"
Fighting for democracy, unity and development in the spirit of social justice. These are three inseparable things that have obsessed Sabam Sirait, a politician who was pushed out of the picture when he didn't get the position of PDI Secretary-General at the PDI Congress of 1986.
January 15, 2002
The political career of the founder of the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI)—which later split into PDI and the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P)—was indeed full of conflict with the then powers-that-be. Many of his thoughts and struggles, both in the fields of economy and politics, were doomed to meet with failure. But that didn't deter him from voicing his opinions. At the 1992 General Session of the People's Consult
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