ALBEIT with the threat of dismissal hanging over him, Subur Budhisantoso had not lost his appetite. Last Friday, in one of the Japanese eateries in the Summitmas Building on Jalan M.H. Thamrin, Jakarta, the General Chairman of the Democrat Party was lobbying political elites, while having his lunch.

He did not seem to care much about rumors that had spread three days before: he would be unseated as the General Chairman of the Democrat Party