People Power in Kampar

Eleven days of nonstop demonstrations have toppled the Kampar Regent, but has the teachers movement been exploited by larger forces?

February 24, 2004

Last Saturday, the sky over the city of Bangkinang seemed likely to split open with the shouts and cheering of victory. It was joy that finally exploded throughout Riau, the capital of Kampar Regency, when the Speaker of the Regency Legislative Council Saefuddin Effendi firmly rapped his gavelthereby approving the discharge of Kampar Regent Jefri Noer and his deputy, Ir. A. Zakir. The tens of thousands of people who since morning had been concent

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