Dissolve Golkar! It has become the oft-repeated chant of demonstrators on the streets of Jakarta and other Indonesian cities. It was feared as the political tool of the Suharto regime, but it came second in the 1999 general election, Indonesia's first democratic election in four decades. Can it really be democratic to dissolve a party with a clear, strong support base?

President Abdurrahman Wahid is rumored to have contemplated issuing a decree