He is no Mandela

Full of dust, the room in the detention house of the Attorney General's Office where Akbar Tandjung remained in fact was not fit for the office of general chairman of a major party. There was no flag or banner. Nor were there photographs of the president and vice president on its dull white walls.

However, from this room, with a small folding table beside a bed, he was going to run the Golkar Party. "I'll be at the helm though confined h

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