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Megawati is pretending coalitions and oppositions don't exist, after building both to stay in power all these years. She calls it ideology, everyone else calls it denial, but when your last name is Soekarno, you don't need to make sense to stay in charge.

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Megawati: Indonesia’s political system doesn’t recognize oppositions and coalitions Megawati Soekarnoputri is once again lecturing the nation from a podium padded with nostalgia and selective memory. At PDIP’s 6th Congress in Bali, following her reelection as party leader until 2030, she confidently announced that “there’s no such thing as opposition or coalition in Indonesia’s presidential system,” arguing that such dichotomies belong only in parliamentary governments. She then doubled down, framing Indonesia’s democracy as one “based on the people’s sovereignty and the Constitution,” and insisting that PDIP would now act as an “ideological balancing force” rather than opposition. http://aulia.me/2025/08/03/megawati-indonesias-political-system-doesnt-recognize-oppositions-and-coalitions/