Compared to South Korea, the Indonesian labour movement is still in its pre-87 stage. But any kind of coalition government in Indonesia will not be able to deliver the goods. This will push workers, peasants and students to new political conclusions and organisational initiatives. The student movement for example which was instrumental in overthrowing Suharto is in desperate need of a correct strategy and a united leadership. A nation wide socialist student organisation linked to the workers and peasants struggle and committed to struggling against capitalism is greatly needed today.
Time is ripe for such an initiative at the Indonesian campuses and high schools.
In doing this they act as a left cover for the bourgeois opposition. This must have the aim to destroy the illusions of those masses in their leaders and to win them over to socialism. This implies a political block with the bourgeoisie. The only kind of unity we can accept must be unity in struggle. But the current line of PRD line does not contribute to unmask the real nature of the bourgeois opposition.