Golkar getting rather hairy

Golkar getting rather hairy

JAKARTA (JP): If you decide to trim your facial hair these
days, make sure you shave it in the form of banyan tree or a
figure two.

That was Golkar chief Harmoko's advise to supporters of
Golkar, the symbol of which is a banyan tree and whose ballot
paper number is two.

Apparently apprehensive about this month's election, Harmoko
made fun of J. Osdar, a Kompas daily reporter, he found without
his usual beard.

"Why did you shave it off?" he asked the reporter who he
approached in apparent seriousness. "You should have let me know
before you did it."

Before the bewildered reporter had time to reply, the Golkar
boss continued, "You should have shaved the hair to form a banyan
tree or a figure two." (06)