Historical Discrepancy

May 1, 2001

After reading TEMPO's cover story Terror Politics (April 16) I feel it necessary to make some criticism. In the article, there was a sentence saying, "…and the Muslim Consultative Assembly of Indonesia in 1945. This former organization later became the small but prominent political party Masyumi, before being disbanded by President Sukarno in the 1960s."

As far as I know, Masyumi was among the winning parties in the 1955 General Election alon

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