Military Muscle Still Mulling it Over

The future of direct presidential elections in Indonesia is still up in the air. If the constitutional amendment runs into a deadlock, it will have to be voted on.

July 30, 2002

The button for the tenth floor is pressed. All of a sudden they had hastily left the meeting room. A walkout? No. It seems that last Monday some members from the Golkar Party faction got the order to temporarily leave the Betawi Room, located on the lower level of Hotel Santika in Slipi, West Jakarta. Although they left the deliberations, the members of Ad Hoc Committee I (PAH I) of the Peoples Consultative Assembly (MPR) continued their discussi

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