The Washington Post, June 13th, 1999
With just over a third of the votes counted from Monday's Indonesian election, the party of popular opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri maintained its strong lead as fresh concerns arose over possible cheating by the ruling Golkar party. Golkar, the vehicle of the discredited Suharto regime, was a distant second as popular resentment over decades of misrule ate into its once-unassailable bloc of support. Golkar received 72 percent of the vote in the controlled election in 1997, but this time seems barely able to reach 20 percent with people voting freely, according to the partial returns. ...
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