On Wednesday last week, the results of quick counts for the legislative elections did not result in pandemonium at the Democrat Party's head office in Central Jakarta. Tempo only found a security guard in a corner of the ground floor watching election news coverage on television.

The mood at the residence of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in Cikeas, Bogor, was similar. Three flatscreen televisions had been set up on the porch to watch broadca