A SHOW titled Defeated Idealism appeared on Metro TV last Thursday. The content was the emotional outpour of Surya Paloh, the owner of Metro TV as well as a candidate for the Golkar Party chairmanship who was eliminated during the party’s national conference held in Pekanbaru, Riau, the previous week.

Surya declared that he did not want to be in the Golkar leadership. As far as Golkar was concerned, “My position is the highest, the position