JUST like in tennis, this is a match between an old hand and a novice. The world champion trains all day long while the novice has just learned how to hold a racket. Golkar Party senior, Fahmi Idris, made this analogy to illustrate the party's convention, an ongoing process that will climax with the selection of a presidential candidate in February 2004.

The old hand is Akbar Tandjung. He has hinted that he will seek to be Golkar candidate fo