Relax, Sit Comfortably and Forget

More than a dozen Golkar legislators are refusing to step down, even though they agreed to under a seat-sharing deal drawn up after the 1999 election.

April 30, 2002

As if it did not have enough problems on its hands, the once-mighty Golkar Party now faces yet another division in its ranks. This one is not a matter of cliques or of links to the Bulog corruption case which has landed its leader Akbar Tandjung in trouble. This time it is about replacing, or rather rotating, its representatives in Senayan, the home of the House of Representatives (DPR).

Or a few of them anyway. In Indonesia, legislators do

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