Lessons from Indonesia’s popular uprising
A pro-democracy uprising in a populous Muslim country with the aim to unseat a dictator in power for nearly three decades: No, it's not Egypt 2011, it's Indonesia 1998. Julia Simon spoke with one leader of Indonesia's 1998 reform movement about what parallels he sees between the two uprisings.
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