The Post-Impeachment Blues
Former president Abdurrahman Wahid's party is down in the dumps, fighting with itself and unsure what it should do next. Its boycott of parliament has had little impact, and now its former leader has defected to the new government.
August 21, 2001
To try to sort out the mess, it held a special party conference at the Sari Pan Pacific Hotel from August 13-15. One decision it took was to revive its factions in the two legislatures, which had been put on ice. But any peace deal between its warring factions still looks some way off.
Officially, the National Awakening Party (PKB) legislators have not decided to return to the legislature because they want to lose their monthly salaries of R
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