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DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE
12 October 1988
The Golkar National Congress: High Stakes in the Indonesian
Succession Game
Summary
Jockeying for the leadership of Golkar--the government's de facto
political party--at its National Congress in late October is shaping into a
struggle between the two most powerful institutions in Indonesia, the
military and the- civil bureaucracy. Institutional and personal objections to