Mass Violence and 'Mobocracy'

Acts of mass violence have been becoming more pronounced of late. In February, the office of the Golkar party in Surabaya was burned. Last week, in Situbondo and Bondowoso, nine homes belonging to officials of the National Mandate Party (PAN) and the Muhammadiyah organization were vandalized and engulfed in flames. On Thursday afternoon, a group calling itself Laskar Diponegoro burned the home of PAN's chairman in Tegal—he had been newly app

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