His opponents charged that he was campaigning. State-owned Radio Republic Indonesia and Televisi Republic Indonesia continue to enjoy a monopoly on news broadcasts, which must be transmitted by all private stations. Golkar got a total of 247 minutes on the two main evening news broadcasts. During the actual polling, one way to cheat was to obstruct the activities of opposition observers. In the past, they often became the target of intimidation.
People have the right to be suspicious about the results.
At least one civil servant would agree. It was so blatant. He was also encouraged to vote in his residential area on the outskirts of the capital, as well as at the Jakarta address on his I.D. card. Harmoko has been at pains to dismiss alleged poll violations as isolated incidents. If dirty tricks were committed, he says, they were done by individuals, not by Golkar as a whole.