Chairman of the Democratic Party Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono delivers a speech during a news conference in Jakarta on March 5, 2021. - Reuters/Ankara
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): There aren't many heroes in the latest saga rocking the Democratic Party, but plenty of villains seem to be involved, and Indonesia's democracy is certainly worse off because of the drama.
A hostile takeover of a political party's leadership, with a government official at the helm, certainly takes political chicanery to a whole new level, even by Indonesian standards. But we'll get to that in a minute.
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