Strong support: Pita (centre) waving during a rally in Bangkok. — Bloomberg
South-East Asia’s non-democratic leaders, especially that of Myanmar’s junta, and even some military generals in Indonesia, are closely watching how far Thailand’s armed forces will tolerate the victory of the anti-military and anti-monarchical Move Forward Party (MFP) in the May 14 elections.
The Indonesian Military (TNI) must be keen to learn from its Thai counterpart how to expand its role in the world’s third largest democracy.
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