Those big parties aren’t thinking about our women, or children, but about the next elections in 2009. GOLKAR wants a clear victory, so wants to secure lots of Muslim votes. PDIP wants to win, too. MegawatI couldn’t care less either about the Porn Bill.
On the contrary, I believe both party wanted to secure their vote for 2009 election. Golkar wanted to win it from people who agree with bill and PDI-P wanted to win it from people who oppose the bill.
I think most Indonesians have called the Islamists’ bluff. The major parties know that they will not score any more points defending the more draconian parts of the bill, and so they dropped them.
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