Two ministers of the Abdurrahman Wahid cabinet, Al-Hilal Hamdi and Yahya Muhaimin of the National Mandate Party (PAN), were dismissed from the party led by Amien Rais as of Thursday at 6:10am. Both former executives of PAN—Hilal as deputy secretary-general and Muhaimin as a member of the advisory council—had rejected the outcome of PAN's central board plenary meeting ordering their exit from the cabinet. It was the climax of the party's