The Challengers’ Roundabout Road
A number of political parties conceived a massive coalition to counter the domination of the Democrat Party and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Jusuf Kalla and Wiranto overtook them on the turn.
May 5, 2009
ONE by one the political party leaders entered the front yard of the People’s Conscience Party’s (Hanura) headquarters in Jl. Diponegoro, Menteng, Central Jakarta, on Friday last week. The entourage of Megawati Soekarnoputri’s Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) was the first to arrive. Accompanied by her husband Taufiq Kiemas and PDI-P Secretary-General Pramono Anung, Megawati—wearing a flaming-red dress with black motif—hu
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