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Fwd (GLW): INDONESIA: Wahid, Sari call for `people's congress'



>From Green Left Weekly, July 10, 2002.

INDONESIA: Wahid, Sari call for `people's congress'
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA - On June 25, the Jakarta Media Centre was packed to overflowing.
Former Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur) and Dita Sari, the
most prominent labour movement figure in Indonesia, were going to speak on
the same platform.

Representatives of Megawati's Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP)
and Vice-President Hamzah Haz's United Development Party (PPP) were also
invited, but expectations were low that they would attend.

Judhilherry Rustam, representing the Vigilance Against the New Order
Committee, a watchdog group on corruption and abuse of power, was also on
the panel. I had also been invited to speak as an academic observer of
Indonesia and a sympathiser of the democratic movement in Indonesia.

< The remainder of the article can be found on the Green Left Weekly website
(http://www.greenleft.org.au )>



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