The World - News from April 24, 1987
President Suharto’s ruling Golkar Party appeared headed for a landslide victory in Indonesia’s national elections, taking 80% of the vote in initial returns. Golkar took 64% of the vote in the last elections in 1982 and had set a target of 70% in the present elections, the fourth of Suharto’s 21 years of military-backed rule. Running a strong second in the capital of Jakarta was the resurgent Indonesian Democratic Party, which has championed the “little man” and adopted as its symbol the portrait of the late President Sukarno.
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