In God's Hands

TEMPO's survey respondents have made no attempt yet to anticipate any possible mass civil unrest in response to a second memorandum against President Abdurrahman Wahid.

May 1, 2001

The terrible scene is likely to emerge this week: thousands of people besieging the House of Representatives/People' s Consultative Assembly (DPR/MPR) building in Senayan, carrying banners, posters and streamers. They wear white headbands emblazoned with the words "Gus Dur Supporter". The supposedly invincible and 'inner power'-trained squads try to penetrate the building with only one goal: preventing the DPR from passing memorandum II that will send

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