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RI SHOULD LEARN FROM IRAN'S POST-ELECTION CONFLICT : POLITICIAN
Jakarta, June 24 (ANTARA) - Indonesia needs to take a good political lesson from Iran's post-election conflict, especially in the run up to the July 8 presidential election, a politician said.
The post-election riots in Iran should serve as a good political lesson for Indonesia in the runup to the July presidential election, United Development Party (PPP) Associate Chairman Irgan Chairul Mahfiz said here on Wednesday.
Irgan expressed hope that the presidential and vice presidential candidates in the upcoming election would compete in reasonable, elegant, and fair ways so that the people could accept the election result whatever it is later.
According to Irgan, it was important for all presidential and vice presidential candidates to put forward their ideal and realistic policies and programs.
"We all hope that all candidates are ready accept victory or defeat so that the developing democracy in our country can be better and the reform spirit will not lose its essence," Irgan said.
Meanwhile, international affairs observer at Gajah Mada University (UGM) Ichlasul Amal said in Yogyakarta on Monday that the turmoil in Iran following the country's presidential election could not possibly occur in Indonesia.
He said something like the post-election unrest in Iran was not likely to happen after the presidential election in Indonesia.
"It cannot happen in Indonesia because here we do not have very dominant groups in the political arena like in Iran. In Iran there are two dominant groups in politics," Amal said.
He said the chaos in Iran after its presidential election was because of the existence of two dominant groups, namely the moderate group and the conservative or hardliners' group.
"The violence erupted in Iran because one of the dominant groups was unsatisfied with the election result. The moderate group which lost in the election then staged protest rallies which were responded to strongly by the authorities," Amal said.
He said, in the past, both groups supported the Iranian Revolution but in later developments they became divided by differences and eventually became frontally opposed to each other.
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The post-election riots in Iran should serve as a good political lesson for Indonesia in the runup to the July presidential election, United Development Party (PPP) Associate Chairman Irgan Chairul Mahfiz said here on Wednesday.
Irgan expressed hope that the presidential and vice presidential candidates in the upcoming election would compete in reasonable, elegant, and fair ways so that the people could accept the election result whatever it is later.
According to Irgan, it was important for all presidential and vice presidential candidates to put forward their ideal and realistic policies and programs.
"We all hope that all candidates are ready accept victory or defeat so that the developing democracy in our country can be better and the reform spirit will not lose its essence," Irgan said.
Meanwhile, international affairs observer at Gajah Mada University (UGM) Ichlasul Amal said in Yogyakarta on Monday that the turmoil in Iran following the country's presidential election could not possibly occur in Indonesia.
He said something like the post-election unrest in Iran was not likely to happen after the presidential election in Indonesia.
"It cannot happen in Indonesia because here we do not have very dominant groups in the political arena like in Iran. In Iran there are two dominant groups in politics," Amal said.
He said the chaos in Iran after its presidential election was because of the existence of two dominant groups, namely the moderate group and the conservative or hardliners' group.
"The violence erupted in Iran because one of the dominant groups was unsatisfied with the election result. The moderate group which lost in the election then staged protest rallies which were responded to strongly by the authorities," Amal said.
He said, in the past, both groups supported the Iranian Revolution but in later developments they became divided by differences and eventually became frontally opposed to each other.
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