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Pemilu 1997
Differential equity and/or a moral renewal
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{This report was for me the first serious attempt at trying to consider where the crisis
would take Indonesia. At the time I do not think the term Reformasi had yet been
popularized. In my mind the term to describe this need for renewal would be
“pembaharuan”, rather than the bastardized English term reformasi that did emerge.
In my view the depth of suffering that would occur through this emerging crisis was
such that people would be forced to engage in some kind of introspection as they seek
to understand just why they were being affected like this. Under such circumstances
it would seem normal that people look to moral (or perhaps ethical) answers to
understand and then redress these problems. In the case of Indonesia the answers
would, of course, be sought most substantively through Islam as the religion of the
overwhelming majority of the population.
The footnotes in this document were added on 31 December 2006, as I reviewed the
original document – all with the comforting distance of almost 9 years of hind–sight!
The comments are intended to provide both a little historic context that may now have
been forgotten with time and also to provide some auto–criticism of where I believe
my analysis was flawed or perhaps biased. From the original document I have also
corrected typing mistakes and grammatical errors without changing the integrity and
substance of what was initially written. The footnotes therefore do not represent part
of the original document.}
1997-11-20
Polling day: 1997
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These notes were put together in June 2008: some 11 years after the events of the 1992 elections. The notes
represents my clearest recollections and impressions of the time. Polling day was Tuesday, 29 May 1997.
1997-05-29
On the streets during the 1997 Elections
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These notes were put together in June 2008: some 11 years after the events of the 1997 elections. The notes
represents my clearest recollections and impressions of the time.
1997-05-01
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