A Rather Untimely Decree

IT ALL began on a Saturday afternoon two weeks ago at the Bina Graha presidential office. President Abdurrahman Wahid was entertaining the rectors of Indonesia's 112 private Islamic colleges when he made an announcement that shocked everyone present. According to Minister of Defence Mahfud M.D. who was also there, the president announced that he was going to issue a decree to dissolve the House of Representatives (DPR) and hold a new general elect

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