The Waiting Game
What are politicians doing before Election Day?
April 6, 2004
AL Hilal Hamdi had just arrived at Magelang, Central Java, last Tuesday evening. In the middle of the night, when this former Minister of Manpower and Transmigration in Gus Dur's administration, was taking a rest, an activist of the National Awakening Party (PKB) suddenly rushed in to report to him. It seemed there was something very urgent. On the sheet containing a list of candidates for the Central Java VI electoral district, where Hila
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