Waiting For a Compatible Party

To fortify their position, the SBY-Kalla presidential pairing is looking forward to the support of five political partiesbut the parties have remained ambivalent.

August 24, 2004

JUSUF Kalla was on edge. Time and again he turned his head to the entrance of the Muhammadiyah headquarters in Jalan Menteng Raya, Central Jakarta. Last Friday evening, Kalla as one of the guests attending a commemorative event of Indonesia's independence day was apparently looking forward to meet two other invitees. As the evening dragged on into the night, there was no sign of the Chairman of the National Mandate Party (PAN), Amien Rais, and

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