Turning Village Heads

The village headmens demand to be allowed to manage political parties has been rejected. They should voluntarily give up their rights in the public interest.

April 11, 2006

PEOPLE are used to seeing demonstrations, big or small. Normally, it is non-government organizations applying political pressure by mobilizing the masses. But if the people demonstrating are part of the government, it is indeed extraordinary. Thats what happened last Monday when thousands of members of an organization called Parade Nusantara, or the Union of Village Headmen and Village Officials, descended on Jakarta to protest at the Department

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