In Indonesia, the rules of the game involving political parties are far from perfect, leading to deviations in the practice of party politics. This was the opinion of Gabor Halmai, a law professor of Istvan University in Hungary, as relayed to TEMPO.

Admittedly, Halmai is not an expert on Indonesia—he is an expert in comparative political party systems. In fact, this former Executive Director of the Human Rights Program at the University o