As President Abdurrahman Wahid's battle against impeachment reaches its climax, demands mount for Indonesia's former ruling party Golkar to be closed down. One of the chief aggressors in the war against Wahid, Golkar is being called to account for alleged sins of the past in a lawsuit to be settled by the Supreme Court on Monday next week.

Yet these `sins' do not relate to Golkar's days as a pillar of the Suharto regime, but its remarkable showi