After approving Jakarta’s 2001 provincial budget despite a mass walkout by legislators, speaker Edy Waluyo is under pressure to resign. Little surprise, the pressure is coming from those who walked out, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P).

Last week PDI-P’s leader in the legislature Audi Tambunan demanded Edy quit, saying he cannot accommodate the views of his members. An appointee from the military and police faction