Horse Trading Rules

Agreement to the Presidential Election Law has prioritized party interests. What about the practices of "trading" in the sensitive articles?

July 15, 2003

PERMADI could not hold back his feelings. The member of the House of Representatives (DPR) from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) interrupted the plenary meeting for acceptance of the Law on the Election of Presidents and Vice Presidents, last Monday. He deplored the removal of the condition from the legislation that presidential and vice-presidential candidates may not be the accused in a legal case.

The interruption by th

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