Independents’ Day
The Constitutional Court opens the door to non-partisan regional head candidates. In regions, independent aspirants are already engaged in guerrilla maneuvers.
July 31, 2007
Every weekend over the last three months, Made Mangku Pastika has been returning to Bali. Instead of vacationing, the police general now serving as Daily Executive of the National Narcotics Agency is touring regional bases of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) on the island. “I have visited eight party branch leaders,” he said enthusiastically last weekend.
Pastika’s political guerrilla action has to do with his plan to ru
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