Yellow card for Gus Dur

Legal proceedings against President Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid following the indictment by the House Commission on Buloggate and Bruneigate scam look like an impossible mission. Under the Constitution the President can testify before a legal court as a person, only with the consent of the head of state, while they are both one and the same person, who will sit as the accused.

So, the only solution would be that the President should first be dismissed from his post, either permanently or temporarily, since as we know, he refuses to abandon his office. We have then a kind of stale-mate situation like in a chess game.

The problem is now the Special Session of the People's Consultative Assembly cannot be convened at short notice and without the will (proposal) of the entire members of the House of Representatives.

I am only afraid the more the President sounds defiant the larger the number of students who will take to the streets. If it were a game of chess, it looks like the king is in a checkmate position. Maybe that is why prominent citizens like Amien Rais and Muslim intellectual Nurcholish Madjid advised the President to give up the game.

I do pray that the saints and the security authorities will keep the any turmoil under control and no blood will be shed until the nation gets a new president.

GANDHI SUKARDI

Jakarta