Indonesian legislative election, 1971
Indonesian legislative election, 1971 Following the Transition to the New Order from 1965â€"1967, the army-backed New Order regime announced that the Golkar organization would be its political vehicle. The regime stressed that Golkar wasn't a political party. In order to give General Ali Murtopo time to turn Golkar into an organization fit to command a majority in the legislature, the general election originally planned for no later than July 5, 1968 was postponed to no later than July 5, 1971. After a time with no word from the government concerning the forthcoming election, on October 22, 1968, the Sinar Harapan daily reported a statement by President Suharto to the effect that the government had begun to take the necessary steps to organize the poll. A General Election Board was established in mid-1969 headed by Interior Minister Amirmachmud. On September 23, 1970, the ballot paper numbers and electoral symbols for the 10 election participants were announced. In order to ...