The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) has learned some valuable lessons over the past year and a half. Victory in the 1999 general election for Megawati Sukarnoputri’s party was no guarantee of political power. She and many of her cadres found themselves shunted aside into positions of second-best. At the national level, Megawati was forced to play second fiddle, while Abdurrahman Wahid, whose party came fourth in the election