Political Parties
Out on a Limb
Tuesday, June 12, 2001
Indonesia's Supreme Court will shortly rule on a demand to disband the Golkar party, the political machine of the Suharto regime. Would it dare?
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Dissolve Golkar! It has become the oft-repeated chant of demonstrators on the streets of Jakarta and other Indonesian cities. It was feared as the political tool of the Suharto regime, but it came second in the 1999 general election, Indonesia's first democratic election in four decades. Can it really be democratic to dissolve a party with a clear, strong support base?
President Abdurrahman Wahid is rumored to have contemplated issuing a decree
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