Down, Not Out

A number of `troubled' politicians are looking for a way to extend their stay at the DPR. Some of them have founded new political parties.

March 11, 2003

What's been happening with the politicians whose parties did not meet the electoral threshold in the 1999 General Election, or were given the boot by their party? Well, they haven't given up yet, that's for sure. Take Abdul Qadir Jaelani, for instance. You won't always find him at the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) in Senayan, Jakarta. These days, he spends most of his time at the headquarters of his new party, the Al-Islam Indonesia P

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