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Show Alo The Salt Lake Tribune WORLD Friday,June11, 1999 Vote Sample Shows Opposition Has Wonin Indonesia Butthe official results are still just trickling in DALLAS MORNING NEWS JAKARTA, Indonesia — As the official count in Indonesia's criti- cal parliamentary elections inchedalongat an agonizing pace, voting data gatheredby a respected independent group on Thurs- day showed the opposition party "EMMII, E 4 the freest andfairest in Indonesia elago this Southeast Asian archip years. with a heavy hand for 32 s But while pre-election survey indicated weak support for Gols prekar and manylocal analyst since 1955, with little violence and few reported irregularities. Many Indonesians hate Golkar because it wasthe creation of for- jor, if not dominant, playerin In- lease their sample data. Monday's election has been widely praised by voters as well as foreign and domestic observers as Rector’s Forumdata suggests that the partywill continue to bea ma- donesian politics merPresident Suharto, who ruled 217.770, HOOK A F NB AT DESERET BOOK led by Megawati Sukarnoputri as dicted a poor poll showing, the likely to win the most seats. Rectors Forum sample also showed the ruling Golkar party, led by President BJ. Habi Buy five books, get the sixth book asl during the Hook-a-Book SummerReading Lacele e-LuE the race for 462 parliamentary seats Based on the sample, Megawati’s partyis likely to win percent to 40 percent and Golkar at least 20 percent, said a Jakarta- The Real Mother tions expert Goose Board Book. Now bie. running a strong second in Brae eeLDS) based Asia specialist and elec- It's looking like a very strong showing for PDI-P,”’ said an Aus- tralianelection analyst, using the Indonesian acronym for Megawa- ti's party The sample suggests that Megawati’s Indonesian Demo- cratic Party for Struggle will emerge from Monday's historic lections with the strongest hand in the competition to form acoali tion that will govern the world’s fourth-most populous country Megawati’s margin of victory over Golkar needsto beat least 12 percentage points to give it a dominant position in the parliamentary jockeying that will lead to the formation of a coalition the classic edition of Mother Itsuo Inouye/The Associated Press Aworker tallies up votes at an election office Thursday in Jakarta, Indonesia. The slow paceof results has raised fraud fears, but officials blame delays on the large number ofvotes to count. Otherwise, Golkar. analysts said, could useits money and in- fluenceto attract enough parliamentaryallies to cling to power as headof a coalition government, a prospect that many Indonesians say would provoke widespread protests. The national election commis- sion’s official count late Thursday government and election of a new president in November, analysts showed Megawati’s party main taining a comfortable lead over said Golkar with about 15 percent of the votes counted. PDI-P had polled 34 percent of the votes to Golkar’s 21 percent. The National Awakening Party was in third with 12 percent ‘TheRector's Forumis a nation- wide group formedby university rectors. Its sampleof morethan 1 million votes wastaken from pollingstations in 11 of Indonesia's 27 provinces. The results have a margin of error of 1.5 percent The sample is much larger Gooseareavailable in this sturdy board bookedition for the thanit needs to be to be statisticallyvalid,” said the Asia scholar This is a statistically reliable indication of thefinal results. The forum had been established to provide baseline data against which official election returns could be compared. Butthe unexpectedlyslowrateof returns —and growing anxieties that officials still loyal to Golkar might try to manipulate the count — prompted forum officials to re- youngestchild. $6.99 i] My Tooth Is Aboutto Fall Out. little girl loses her tooth and gets visit from the Tooth Fairy. 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