THERE are 55 days to go before the second and final round of the direct presidential election. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Jusuf Kalla will battle it out with the incumbent Megawati and her running mate, Hasyim Muzadi.

In the midst of preparations for this `battle royal,' the Defense Team for Indonesian Democracy, set up by activists from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) to defend the rights of victims, is urging the July 2