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...some experts say the televised debates are little more than personality contests. "The candidates really need to sell themselves more than their policies," says Nurul Arifin, a recently elected MP from the Golkar party, the political group of former dictator Suharto. Nurul is supporting Wiranto, the ex-general running with Jusuf Kalla, the current Vice President who is aiming for the top job, but she failed to see a clear winner in the event. "People want to see more interaction, but the candidates are afraid that any attacks could come off as arrogant," she adds. The third candidate, ex-special...
...With secular and nationalist parties, like the newly established Greater Indonesia Movement Party and the party of retired Suharto-era General Wiranto, taking the majority of the votes, Indonesian voters appear to be moving toward the center and abandoning parties based on religion, observers say. Grappling with the global economic crisis and considerable challenges at home, a majority of Indonesians have once again shown that they do not want religion leading the national agenda. "Voters have become more pragmatic and rational as opposed to ideological," says Hasibuan...
...There was no policy to attack civilians, there were no systematic plans, no genocide or crimes against humanity.' GENERAL WIRANTO, retired Indonesian military commander, denying persistent allegations of human-rights abuses committed by Indonesian troops during East Timor's 1999 independence movement, in a hearing before the Indonesia and East Timor Commission of Truth and Friendship...
...with more than 70% of the 125 million votes counted, the partial results are already defying expectations. Front runner Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, whom pollsters had expected to take up to 45% of the votes, is now predicted to win only a third of them. Former army chief Wiranto, whose Golkar party dominated April's parliamentary elections, is now in third place, with just 22%. And in the biggest surprise, President Megawati Sukarnoputri has more than doubled her projected share to take 26% of the votes. The final results won't be announced until July 26, but for now it appears...
...support of the other parties." Indeed, in the event of a runoff between Yudhoyono and Megawati-which will occur if neither wins the required 50% of the vote in the first round-the two finalists will focus much of their attention on trying to woo voters who had supported Wiranto. But with the race still tight and many votes yet to be tallied, Golkar officials refuse to count their man out. "We have to wait for the manual count to be finished before we really know what position we have come in," says campaign chairman Slamet Effendy Yusuf...