The Blind Leading the Bunch
Still-influential Wahid sends mixed signals as NU advisors resolve to dismiss NU office bearers involved in presidential and vice-presidential electoral affairs.
July 27, 2004
PERHAPS it would be much easier to read the direction of the wind than to predict Abdurrahman Wahid's next move. "It would just be like thinking about a car making a left turn with its right blinkers on," said K.H. Idris Marzuki, an elderly cleric of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU). "[Wahid] continues to say that he is a golput (one who abstains from voting) but actually he has been campaigning everywhere. You know the presidential tandem
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