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Monday, December 11, 2000
Legislators chose two figures with links to the Suharto era as their candidates for Supreme Court chief justice. But the president and vice president's parties both refused to vote. Will the president reject them too?
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They walked out before the meeting was even over, clenching their fists in the air and crying foul. Some 80 legislators from the giant Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) walked out as the final touches were being put onto two nominations for the key post of Supreme Court chief justice. The winners? Two figures who served the Suharto regime.
"Danger of latent New Order," yelled PDI-P's Haryanto Taslam, raising a clenched fist in the air
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