Controlling the House

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Kompas – October 8, 2014
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Controlling the House
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Package, package, package... Bag reads paket sembako (basic goods package)

Having scrapped the direct election of regional heads and limited the ability of the anti-graft body to pursue legislators, Prabowo Subianto’s Red and White Coalition has used its parliamentary majority to successfully nominate a ‘package’ of candidates to secure the leadership of the newly inaugurated House and its influential commissions, and is now bragging that it will use its control of the new parliament to undermine the incoming government of president elect Joko Widodo.

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