page_title: Try Sutrisno
section_title: Nomination
hierarchical_section_title: Try Sutrisno / Vice President / Nomination
caption_attribution_description: English: Vice President-elect Try Sutrisno takes the oath of office.
context_page_description: Try Sutrisno is an Indonesian politician and retired army general who served as the country's sixth vice president. He held the office from 11 March 1993 to 11 March 1998. Previously, he served as the Commander of the Republic of Indonesia Armed Forces for five years.
context_section_description: In February 1993, the same month that Try was discharged from his position and a month before the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) was due to meet to elect a new President and Vice President, MPR members from ABRI nominated Try to be the Vice President. Technically speaking, MPR faction members were allowed to nominate their candidates for Vice President. But the unwritten rule in Suharto's regime had been to wait for the President to nominate his chosen candidate.
  Members from the United Development Party and the Indonesian Democratic Party quickly approved of Try's nomination as Golkar struggled in telling its members that Golkar had not nominated Try as Vice President. Suharto was reportedly angry that he had been pre-empted by the armed forces  but did not want an open dispute with its delegation in the assembly. Suharto finally accepted Try and Golkar tried to play down the pre-emption by saying it had let the other parties and ABRI nominate their Vice Presidential candidates.
  ABRI had gotten their revenge from the 1988 MPR General Session when Suharto chose Sudharmono, someone who the ABRI did not like as the Vice President. Defense Minister Benny Moerdani was determined that ABRI would choose a Vice President for Suharto in the 1993 MPR General Session.
  It was speculated that had he not been pre-empted, Suharto would have either elected B. J. Habibie as his Vice President or re-elected Sudharmono.
caption: Try Sutrisno takes the oath of office on 11 March 1993 at a session of the People's Consultative Assembly.
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