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Indonesia decides on list of presidential candidates
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Xinhua News Agency
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May 24, 2004
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Indonesia decides on list of presidential candidates
JAKARTA, May 24 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian commission for general
elections (KPU) insisted Monday that the list of five presidential
candidates was final and binding, despite a legal suit by Abdurrahman
Wahid, whose bid was turned down for medical reason.
"There has been a verdict from the Supreme Court that turns down
Gus Dur's request for a judicial review concerning his medical test,"
KPU deputy chairman Ramlan Surbakti said in a hearing with the House
of Representatives Commission Two overseeing legal and political
affairs here.
Former short-lived president Wahid, better known here as Gus Dur,
has been disqualified for failing the ...