NEW PARTY
Reduction Potential
New parties are being impeded by tougher regulations they must comply with to compete in the 2014 General Elections. Their numbers are bound to shrink.
May 11, 2011
IWAN Kuswandi appeared confused when he was asked whether this really was the office of the Indonesian National Sovereignty Party (Partai Kedaulatan Bangsa Indonesia), which had registered itself two weeks ago at the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights. He also shook his head when we mentioned party officials' names. "Never been here, that lot," he commented last Friday while sitting on a sofa reading a newspaper in the lobby of the two-story house
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