Jumping Ship
Tuesday, April 8, 2003
UMAR Tuasikal was sitting in a traffic jam in his car on a street in Bogor when his cell phone rang suddenly. It was Hidayat Nurwahid, the President of the Justice & Welfare Party on the other end. If the party president was contacting Umar, a lawyer for a coalition of Islamic parties, then something was surely up. True enough. That Monday two weeks ago, the Justice & Welfare Party (PKS)formerly known simply as the Justice Par
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