Same Again or Let the People Choose Next Time?
If a government wants to last in power for five years, let the people choose their president for themselves. According to that scenario, at best they might be rewarded by the president they'd voted for.
November 13, 2001
The playing rules for electing the president are on hold. On Friday last week at the Annual Session of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), the most important internal issue facing the country was delayed to next year. There is a big benefit behind this delay: we have another chance to stop our democracy turning ironic. The irony is this: the ticket of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) as the winner in the 1999 election ...