Vying for the Driver’s Seat

Four party cadres are vying for the position of Golkar Party Chairman. Money is still the top consideration.

August 11, 2009

HIS voice was hoarse, his eyes red. His cellphone doesn’t stop ringing. He would receive calls, then make some a short time afterwards. “I can’t sleep until late at night,” said Ridwan Hisjam, former Chairman of the Golkar Party Regional Leadership Board of East Java, on Friday last week. “I became anxious after declaring myself a candidate for Golkar Party Chairman.”

Hisjam’s name has hardly come up as a candidate for chairman nea

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