Power couple: tacit opposition alliance alarms ruling Golkar party

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Abdurrahman Wahid and Megawati Sukarnoputri have come increasingly closer on political issues, forming an unspoken alliance between Wahid's Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Megawati's Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI). The ruling Golkar Party is alarmed because Megawati's father was the country's first president and the NU is the largest Muslim mass movement in a mostly Muslim nation, though it is not a political party. Golkar pressure has kept the PDI largely on the defensive, but it could make gains in upcoming elections.

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The limits of popularity

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President Megawati Sukarnoputri's Indonesian Democratic Party for Struggle (PDI-P) is locked in a serious struggle with the former Golkar party to control the nation's parliament. Critics feel that failure of MegawatiEs leadership along with Golkar's organization and legislative influence has enabled Golkar to bounce back.

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Golkar banks on nostalgia

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The political prospects of Indonesia's Golkar party in the approaching April 5 general as well as the July 5 presidential elections, after its rout in the general election of 1999 have been described.

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