Habibie government is stronger

Habibie government is stronger

From Pelita

To topple Sukarno and his Old Order regime about ten students' lives were sacrificed. To make Soeharto abdicate the number of Trisakti students who died in the struggle was four.

What about the Habibie government? Despite the high number of fatalities in the Semanggi incident, it still stands. It proves that the Habibie government is stronger than the two previous governments.

Or, perhaps, the opposition forces are very weak so they are not capable of rocking or toppling the Habibie government, which is said to be illegitimate, transitional, etc.. The weakness of the opposition forces is mainly caused by the New Order's repressive policies that made the emergence of an alternative figure to Soeharto impossible.

After Soeharto's abdication a number of prominent figures appeared on the political scene but proved to be failures. Among them were Try Sutrisno, Emil Salim, Edi Sudradjat, Sarwono, Siswono and so on. The reason is that apart from their great sin against the people when they were in office they have no real strong support of the masses.

DUDI FIRMANSYAH MM

Bogor, West Java