Dare to Disband?
Long gone are its glory days as the unbeatable electoral vehicle of an apparently endless Suharto regime. Golkar now has to face the music—and the courts.
May 28, 2001
It appeared to have done well, when despite its past it emerged from the 1999 General Election in second place. But since then, the Golkar Party has been accused of playing money politics and fighting dirty in the 1999 ballot, the one that finally ended its vice-like grip on power and was supposed to change Indonesian politics forever. If the claims are proven, the party could be disbanded or prohibited from running in 2004.
The party elders a
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