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The Jakarta Post | Fri, 08/07/2009 10:31 AM | Headlines

Suparno“buries” himself during an anti-election demonstration in the yard of the now-defunct Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) on Jl. Diponegoro, Central Jakarta, on Thursday. Activists grouped under the Bastion of Indonesian Democracy accused the Yudhoyono administration of selling Indonesia out to US interests and rejected his recent re-election. JP/P.J. Leo

Suparno“buries” himself during an anti-election demonstration in the yard of the now-defunct Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) on Jl. Diponegoro, Central Jakarta, on Thursday. Activists grouped under the Bastion of Indonesian Democracy accused the Yudhoyono administration of selling Indonesia out to US interests and rejected his recent re-election. JP/P.J. Leo











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