NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DAILY

Created: 7/26/1996

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Daily

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EAST ASIA (continued)

Confrontation Likely

authorities appear ready to crack down on supporters of Megawati Sukarnoputri, the embattled leader of the opposition Indonesia Democracy Party (PDI) and the daughter of former President Sukarno. Her loyalists are defying pressure to abandon PDI headquarters in Jakarta and areonthlong rally protesting her ousterovernment-sponsored rump party congress.

The head of the armed forces has branded the protesters subversives, and continuation of the rally has been banned.

Jakarta may lake advantage of extra security forces, brought in for the recently completed meeting of the ASEAN Regional Forum, to seize PDI headquarters, end the rally, and install the regime-supported party leaders.

Megawati's boosters, have called for even bigger rallies this weekend,thai they are broadening their agenda beyond the PDI leadershipinclude attacks on the regime's authority will encourage aviolent

confrontation could prompt nationwide sympathy protestsange of student, labor, and nongovernmental groups that support Megawati.

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