East Java Dej Vu

A quick-count poll named Soekarwo the winner of the gubernatorial elections in East Java. Unwilling to accept this, Khofifah will again challenge the result.

January 27, 2009

THE man arrived and hurriedly approached Imam Bukhori Kolil, the head of the Ibnu Kholil Islamic boarding school in Bangkalan, on the East Java island of Madura. On that Wednesday last week, Imam was engrossed in a discussion with several guests in the backyard of his home, the day before the election reruns in Bangkalan and Sampang. In the man's hand was a white envelope with a picture of the Garuda bird and the words "The Regent of Bangkalan". In

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