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A CENTURY OF PARLIAMENTARY LIFE
IN INDONESIA

The political motive in this case was very clear. Even later in the con-
fession of PDI Chairman Soerjadi, it was said that the raid was carried
out by Brimob and TNI dressed as PDI. Apart from these leaders being
detained, there were also possibilities that there would be victims as a
result of this incident.

The efforts of the Government of Soeharto to regulate the management
of PDI were to maintain control of the party, especially ahead of the 1997
general election, and at the same time the emergence of the Soekarno
family in the PDI.

Students occupying the DPR-RI The 1997 general election or the sixth election, which later turned out to
Building, 18 May 1998.
be the last election of the New Order era, was held on 29 May 1997. This
was to elect members of the DPR-RI as well as members of the Level I
Provincial DPRD and Level II Regency/Municipality DPRD throughout
Indonesia for the 1997-2002 period.

The PDI internal conflict which caused the disappointment of residents
and PDI sympathizers was responded tactically by the Surakarta PPP
Branch Executive Board by raising the issue of “Mega-Star” (Mega-
Bintang). The issue, which was a phenomenon of the joining of the PDI
masses supporting Megawati in the PPP campaign (the star, the symbol
of the PPP at the time) wearing the “Mega-Star” attribute, turned out to
have received an enthusiastic response from the PDI mass supporters of

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