PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
An Empty Threat?

Wiranto threatens to boycott the presidential election. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.

April 28, 2009

AS a party that feels disadvantaged by the April 9 legislative election, probably the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) is extremely annoyed at the General Elections Commission (KPU). During the dissemination of four ballot models for the presidential election, scheduled for July 2009, to the political party representatives on Tuesday last week, PDI-P cadres were the fussiest.

When the KPU showed sample ballots showing two pairs o

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