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	Asia Society: Publications - Indonesia's 1999 Elections
		Indonesians tend to view the period 1950-57 as one of fast-changing, weak governments, divisive party politics, and administrative chaos, as power shifted among the leading parties.
		Indonesians speculate that six parties are likely to receive up to 85-90 percent of the vote in the parliamentary elections: the newly formed parties of Megawati, Gus Dur, Amien Rais, and Edi Sudrajat, plus the Soeharto-era holdovers, Golkar and the PPP.
		It has also been argued that it is difficult to practice democracy in a multiethnic society and that the collapse of constitutional democracy in the 1950s was due significantly to the government's inability to cope with ethnic and regional issues.
	www.asiasociety.org /publications/update_indonesia.html (14133 words)

	Indonesian Democratic Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) was one of the major state-approved parties during the New Order era of the late 20th-century in Indonesia.
		Suharto wished that political parties be reduced to just two or three and that the parties should be grouped based on their programs.
		The basis for the merger that would result in the birth of PDI was a coalition of the five Nationalist and non-Islamic Parties in the People's Representative Council (DPR) called the the Democracy Development Faction.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indonesian_Democratic_Party (846 words)

	Polity IV Country Report 2003: Indonesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Given the results of the April 2004 legislative elections, seven parties are eligible to field candidates in the upcoming election.
		While the military continues to be an influential player in both the political and economic realms of Indonesian society, they have largely removed themselves from the day-to-day tasks of governance, at least for the present.
		Conflict between Christians and Muslims (in the Moluccas Islands and on Sulawesi) and between the indigenous Dayak ethnic group and Madurese settlers in West Kalimantan (on the island of Borneo) are representative of the increasing factionalization of Indonesian politics.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Ins1.htm (1702 words)

	Book Review
		Chapter 3, for example, explores the development of the post-Suharto party and electoral laws, highlighting the high level of contestation that went into the creation of the new system as well as the many complementary reforms that were required in order to create a new political playing field.
		For example, abangan (nominal) Muslims were believed to prefer Megawati Sukarnoputri’s Indonesian Democracy Party—Struggle (PDI-P) as that same type of voter had preferred the Indonesian National Party (PNI) associated with her father or the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) forty-four years earlier.
		It would be assumed that, with its basis in the bureaucracy and as a party from the secular-nationalist political stream, Golkar might find support in areas that had previously supported the bureaucrat-based, nationalist PNI.
	people.uncw.edu /tanp/kinghalf.html (1227 words)

	Indonesian Parties and Politics Paige Johnson Tan
		The party placed a heavy dose of its campaigning on its abilities to lead the country out of the economic crisis (ignoring that it was under Suharto and Golkar that the nation became one of the hardest hit of all the Asian economies through the crisis).
		After the election, and with their new electoral mandates, the parties began the long process of negotiations to precede the election of a new president and the sitting of a new legislature at the General Session of the MPR in October 1999.
		All the top parties have spoken of the need for understanding of Indonesia’s diverse population, though in the Annual Session of the MPR in August 2000 there was some push by the Islamic parties for a greater role for religion in the state.
	people.uncw.edu /tanp/ipgenglish.html (9848 words)

	Indonesia's Election
		No party is expected to win a majority, including Golkar, the ruling party of President B. Habibie and former President Suharto.
		Megawati is the daughter of Sukarno, Indonesia's first president, and had been the head of the PDI in 1994 until Suharto had her removed.
		At the same time, however, the fragmentation and factionalism of these flegling political parties may create a government ineffective and lacking direction, which is particularly dangerous in a country fraught with economic catastrophe and rife with ethnic violence and secessionism.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/indonesianelection1.html (448 words)

	CNN - Dozens hurt in Indonesian political protest - June 30, 1996
		The Indonesian military takes an active part in running the government, and is allowed 100 of the 500 seats in Parliament.
		The PDI is one of three parties legally entitled to contest general elections expected to be held in June 1997.
		Megawati is the daughter of Indonesia's nationalist leader, the late President Sukarno, and has emerged as a possible challenger to President Suharto, a former army general, in the 1998 elections.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9606/20/indonesia/index.html (436 words)

	Elections, Suharto Style
		Indonesians voted to fill 425 seats in the country's parliament, the DPR (the People's Representative Assembly); ABRI, the Indonesian armed forces appoints the other 75 members.
		Mohammad Hikom, a political scientist at the Indonesian Academy of Sciences, commented that "up to now, 30 years after it was created, there is not yet one bill that has been proposed by the DPR itself.
		Given the regime's domination of the electoral process, they had reason to be confident: the two nominal opposition parties – the Indonesian Democracy Party (PDI) and the United Development Party (PPP) –; are forbidden to operate below the district level, and are thereby denied access to 40% of voters, while GOLKAR dominates every administrative level.
	www.etan.org /estafeta/97/spring/esElectns.htm (938 words)

	1999, June 7. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Led by Megawati Sukarnoputri, the Indonesian Democracy Party-Struggle (PDI-P) made great gains on the ruling Golkar Party.
		International pressure was placed on the Indonesian government to allow peacekeeping forces into East Timor.
		Abdurrahman Wahid (commonly known as Gus Dur), the leader of Indonesia's largest Muslim organization, was elected president, which surprised many observers.
	www.bartleby.com /67/4138.html (186 words)

	Open Directory - Society: Politics: Democracy
		Foundation for Democracy in Africa - A Washington based non-profit, nonpartisan organization focused on strengthening and enhancing the fundamental principles of democracy, and freedom in Africa.
		Ratifiers for Democracy - A democratic model that harmonizes representative and direct democracy, to ensure that legislation is citizen-mandated, and to be a loophole-free way to clean up the control that money and special interests now have in politics.
		World Movement for Democracy - Nongovernmental effort to strengthen democracy where it is weak, to reform and invigorate democracy even where it is longstanding, and to bolster pro-democracy groups in countries that have not yet entered into a process of democratic transition.
	dmoz.org /Society/Politics/Democracy (1271 words)

	Malaysia's Wan Azizah telephones Indonesia's Megawati:
		Wan Azizah called Megawati, leader of the Indonesian Democracy Party-Struggle (PDIP) and a presidential hopeful, Wednesday night at her Jakarta residence, the Rakyat Merdeka daily said.
		In third place was the ruling Golkar party with 1,2143,783 or 16.0 percent, a slight percentage point gain on its position from late Wednesday.
		She has set up the National Justice Party in a bid to continue her husband's call for political reform in Malaysia.
	members.tripod.com /ris20202/_disc9/00000325.htm (294 words)

	Indonesian Democracy vs. Islamist Fundamentalism - Middle East Forum
		The leaders of two such parties, the fourth and fifth presidential candidates, Amien Rais (National Mandate Party) and Hamzah Haz (United Development Party) have a history of illiberal statements and associations behind them.
		His defense, that he is the victim of a U.S. conspiracy and that JI does not exist, was accepted at face value by the court.
		It ought to alert Washington to the inroads of militant Islam in even democratic Muslim polities and thus to the dangers to the long-term prospects of democracy in the world's most populous Muslim majority state.
	www.meforum.org /article/627 (847 words)

	[Islam-Online- Top News]
		Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid on Tuesday unveiled a 35-member cabinet, appointing a civilian to head the defense ministry for the first time in the country's history and creating a new human rights portfolio.
		The deputy chairman of the National Mandate Party, Hasbalah Saad, assumed the human rights portfolio; Sarwono Kusumaatmaja, a former minister of the environment under ex-president Suharto took sea exploration; while legal expert Ryaas Rasyid was to handle regional autonomy affairs.
		The deputy chairman of Habibie's Golkar party and chairman of the National Commission on Human Rights, Marzuki Darusman, was named attorney general, while the new state secretary is Ali Rahman, a senior official of the national development planning agency.
	www.islamonline.net /iol-english/dowalia/special-1/nrep3.asp (733 words)

	Indonesian Democracy’s Enemy Within
		Indonesian Islam has long been famed for an easygoing approach to the faith that incorporates elements of Hinduism and Buddhism, which preceded Islam on the archipelago by more than a millenium.
		Indeed, peaceful methods aside, the Justice Party's success can only help terrorists: the more people who believe that the problem with society is too much modernity, and that a purified Islam is an answer to twenty-first century problems, the more likely it is that hotheads among them will use terrorism to achieve their goals.
		Ultimately, Indonesians alone will decide whether their future lies with the rest of Southeast Asia, or with a backward-looking movement cloaked in religious fundamentalism The Justice Party remains on the march.
	yaleglobal.yale.edu /display.article?id=6579 (1471 words)

	Generals Could Still Play Key Political Role : Indonesia's Military Is Down, but Not Out
		The Indonesian armed forces, for many years a bastion of political support for the authoritarian government of former President Suharto, declared that they were neutral in parliamentary elections held last week, helping to make the polls a genuine contest for the first time since 1955.
		Megawati's party unless she agreed to four conditions, among them phasing out the "dual function," of the military in which it has a legally sanctioned political role in addition to operating as an external defense and internal security force.
		Rais's statement reflects the suspicion among many reformist civilian politicians that the military is positioning itself to act as king-maker in a situation where no party commands a majority in either the new Parliament or the electoral college that is due to choose the next president and vice president of the country, in November.
	www.iht.com /articles/1999/06/14/indo.2.t_11.php (610 words)

	List of political parties in Indonesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A political party is a political organization subscribing to a certain ideology or formed around very special issues with the aim to participate in power, usually by participating in elections.
		Indonesia has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.
		Index of political parties to browse parties by name
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Indonesia (222 words)

	Inside Indonesia 51 - The election: what is at stake? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In subsequent years, the party was forced to sever all symbolic attachments to Islam, although it clearly retains an Islamic base.
		PDI (Partai Demokrasi Indonesia, Indonesian Democracy Party) was also formed in 1973 as a result of a fusion of five secular nationalist and Christian parties.
		In late 1993, Megawati Sukarnoputri, the daughter of the first president, was elected to head the party, but she was ousted at a government-backed congress in June 1996.
	www.serve.com /inside/edit51/asp1.htm (480 words)

	CALD News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In addition to the current 8 member-parties (Democrat Party of Thailand, Democratic Progressive Party of Taiwan, the Liberal Parties of the Philippines and Sri Lanka, the Singapore Democratic Party, the National Council of the Union of Burma and the Sam Rainsy Party of Cambodia), CALD currently has eight observer organizations.
		Prior to the three groups, the CALD observers are the Indonesian Democracy Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the National Awakening Party (PKB) of Indonesia, the Democrat Party and the Liberal Party of Japan and the Millennium Democratic Party of Korea.
		Since then, the Democratic Party has won every set of elections held in Hong Kong and has received wide public support for its stance that Hong Kong must develop democratic institutions and preserve freedom, human rights and the rule of law if the territory is to continue to prosper as part of China.
	www.cald.org /news/newmembers.htm (628 words)

	SouthWestern Bell Worldroom at the International Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		By law there are only three legal political parties: Golkar, a federation of groups including civil servants, youth, labor, farmers, and women; United Development Party (PPP), composed of various Muslim groups; and the Indonesian Democracy Party (PDI) composed of Christian, socialist, and nationalist elements.
		The party system reflects the Soeharto Government's determination to shift the political focus from Indonesia's deep ethnic, religious, and ideological differences, which contributed to the collapse of an earlier experiment in parliamentary democracy.
		Under the dual function concept, military officers serve in the civilian bureaucracy at all government levels, although there has been a recent tendency to somewhat reduce the military's direct involvement in the civilian bureaucracies.
	worldroom.tamu.edu /develop/GA_Indo.htm (481 words)

	GAMA: Instability and Disorder in I
		of the Indonesian Democracy Party (PDl) occupied by Megawati Sukarnoputris
		Party established in April 1996 and the United Indonesian Democratic Party
		Indonesians died in an anti-Communist killing frenzy that was unleashed
	www.hamline.edu /apakabar/basisdata/1996/08/07/0001.html (580 words)

	PreventConflict.org - Background
		At that time, she was asked to join the Indonesian Democracy Party (PDI), one of the few opposition parties permitted under Suharto.
		Her reputation was bolstered by the legacy of her father, who remained a national hero in the eyes of many Indonesians.
		Her party was supported across the religious spectrum and in military circles and she won 33% of the vote, more than any other competitor.
	www.preventconflict.org /portal/main/background_politics_megawati.php (1075 words)

	Peace the Only Option for Aceh
		The prospect of achieving sustainable peace in the tumultuous Indonesian region of Aceh is being undermined by comments from politicians denouncing the ongoing peace negotiations in Helsinki.
		Indonesian has done this very same thing, offering its officials in mediating roles for conflicts in other Asian countries.
		The opposition to the negotiation process by sections of the Indonesian public also needs to be addressed -- immediately -- by the government if they are serious about finding a route to peace in Aceh.
	yaleglobal.yale.edu /display.article?id=5879 (1002 words)

	english
		The third is the spread of multiple violations of the principles and ideals of freedom and independence, blatantly forgetting that we are a civilized, cultured, religious nation.
		The entrenched practice of personal enrichment through the issue of special concessions and monopolies to certain business groups and individuals, supposedly in the interest of the nation, was equal to channeling the foreign debt to specific business sectors owned and developed by these groups for their own profit.
		Now that he is not in good health, it is unwise and starkly speculative and totally irresponsible if certain parties for their will in nominating and reelecting Soeharto to another five year term as president.
	members.tripod.com /~megawati/english.htm (3239 words)

	World
		Rebels in the staunchly-Muslim province at the tip of Sumatra surrendered their arsenal of 840 weapons by the end of last year as promised and in return, the Indonesian military and police withdrew all of their non-local forces.
		The most likely candidate for scuttling the process appears to be former president Megawati Sukarnoputri, leader of nationalist-inspired Indonesian Democracy Party for Struggle, the country's largest opposition party.
		Megawati's party has insufficient numbers to block the law, although it could do so if it convinces minor parties to join its ranks.
	www.dailynews.lk /2006/01/20/wld01.htm (532 words)

	Asia Society - Publications -
		Appendix 1: Political Parties Approved to Contest the June Elections
		But in actual fact, political parties were largely irrelevant.
		Interestingly enough, interethnic hostility was virtually never aroused.
	www.asiasociety.org /publications/indonesia (12369 words)

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