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INDONESIAN

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(Chanting in Indonesian:

"Mega..pasti menang. .pasti

menang..pasti menang)

" Mega will surely win.. will surely win… will surely win”

00.32.

PDI Headquarters.

of supporters in

red and black .

chaos in the street....

chanting " Megawati..Megawati.

THIS IS THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE

INDONESIAN DEMOCRACTIC PARTY -

OR PDI - IN CENTRAL JAKARTA.

TEESE ARE THE LOYAL SUPPORTERS

OF MEGAWATI SUKARNOPUTRI -

DAUGHTER OF INDONESIA'S FOUNDING

PRESIDENT AND THE WOMAN WHO'S

BECOME DE-FACTO LEADER OF THE

COUNTRY'S OPPOSITION.

CLAD IN THEIR DISTINCTIVE RED AND

BLACK - THEY'VE BEEN BARRICADED

INSIDE PARTY HEADQUARTERS FOR

MORE THAN A MONTH .

Megawati walks from HQ building to

her car...swamped by supporters.

chaos etc as her car leaves the PDI

HQ compound.

INDONESIAN -

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SUPER: MEGAWATI

SUKARNOPUTRI

TODAY - NEGATWATI IS OUT GIVING

ENCOURAGEMENT TO 1--1ER ARMY OF

SUPPORTERS WHO SAY THEY WON'T

END OCCUPATION UNTIL HER

LEADERSHIP HAS BEEN RESTORED.

grab Mega wati.

"Whatever happens,

they 'II be

here as long as they like. I

can 't stop them from staying

here. It's their will

it's their home.

This is in

fact a spontaneous act, of solidarity - not only from P DI members - also ordinary people

who see the unfairness of what's happened".

01.44

Riot troops jump out of truck.

adjust helmets shields.

line up to face advancing march

- several dozen troops

tracking shot formed up.

JUST DOWN THE ROAD - RIOT POLICE

PREPARE TO BLOCK ANOTHER

DEMONSTRATION

THIS IS WHAT MEGAWATI IS UP

AGAINST..

THE MILITARY IS THE BEDROCK ON

WHICH PRESIDENT SOEHARTO'S SO-

CALLED NEW ORDER HAS BEEN BUILT.

ITS TASK IS TO PROVIDE POLITICAL

STABILITY - WHATEVER THE COSTS.

IN THE EYES OF THE NEW ORDER -

rvEGAWAT1'S MISTAKE WAS TO

BECONE TOO POPULAR AND TOO

OUTSPOKEN.

02.13

INDONESIAN -

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SUPER: MAJ. GENERAL SUWARNO

INDONESIAN ARMY

grab Major General Suwarno.

"If you have to demostrate, act

on your feelings, it has to be done in an orderly way

according to the rules and laws

so it won't disturb security

and traffic. Nor will we

tolerate destruction or acts of terror

02.54

THIS IS THE MAN WHO IRONICALLY

HAS CULT-STATUS WITHIN TEE PRO-

DEMOCRACY MOVELMENT -

INDONESIA'S CHARISMATIC FIRST

PRESIDENT SUKARNO - A FIGURE

STILL REVERED BY MILLIONS.

BUT IT WAS SUKARNO WHO

ABOLISHED THE COUNTRY'S

PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY AND

DECLARED HIMSELF PRESIDENT FOR

LIFE.

HIS FAILED BID TO PLAY THE

MILITARY , COMMUNISTS AND

MULSIMS OFF AGAINST EACH OTHER

IN 1965 PAVED THE WAY FOR A

MASSACRE OÉHALF A MILLION

PEOPLE - A MASSIVE BLOODLETTING

WHICH STILL HAUNTS INDONESIANS.

03.31

THE MAN WHO EMERGED FROM THE

CARNAGE TO TAKE CHARGE WAS THE

CURRENT PRESIDENT SOEHARTO.

IN THE SHADOW OF THE FIGURE HE

ONCE CAMPAIGNED AGAINST -

ACTIVIST AND COMNENTATOR ARIF

BUDIMAN POSES FOR THE MEDIA.

HE WAS A BACKER OF SUHARTO - BUT

NOW DISILLUSIONED ARIF SAYS THE

NEW ORDER INVOKES THE MEMORY OF

1965 TO JUSTIFY ITS CRACKDOWNS.

ARIF BUDIMAN GRAB

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ARIF GRAB

"The Government kept

saying

to people look if we

you don't

if you try to create problems,

you want to try to be different

from the Government, what

will happen will be as chaotic

thing similar to 1965"

04.20

PDI

march

through

streets

DEMONSTRATIONS ARE NOW ALMOST

A DAILY EVENT IN JAKARTA.

TODAY THE PDI MARCHERS HAVE

BEEN JOINED BY A MYRIAD OF

OPPOSITION GROUPS.

THEY'RE PROTESTING AGAINST

EVERYTHING FROM ENTRENCHED

CORRUPTION - TO THE EVER WIDENING

GAP BETWEEN THE RICH AND TEE

POOR

04.39

Reveal Budiman in the crowd

Budiman walking talking with

Michael

THE MOST RADICAL OF THOSE GROUPS

IS LED BY 26 YEAR OLD BUDIMAN

SUDJATMIKO.

IT'S IN JAKARTA'S TEEMING

KAMPONGS THAT BUDIMAN AND HIS

"PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC PARTY" - OR

PRD - ARE PREACHING THEIR

MESSAGE OF RESISTANCE.

05.02

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SUPER: BUDIMAN SUDJATMIKO

PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC

PARTY

They are quite critical and actually,

they are indigenous people, that by the

process of development, have been marginalised

trditiona/b, culturally - and they see some of the

policies of the government as immoral

and giving the people misery.

05.35

Budiman and Michael walk down

alley

walk into Budiman HQ

INDONESIAN -

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BUDIMAN TAKES US TO PRD

HEADQUARTERS - HIDDEN AWAY IN

TI-E BACKSTREETS.

THESE ACTIVISTS ARE LIVING

DANGEROUSLY.

THEIR POLITICS ARE LEFT-WING AND

A NUMBER OF PARTY MEMBERS HAVE

ALREADY BEEN ARRESTED.

' 'At the moment the main

priority is how to mobilise the masses -

if we evaluate them -

the P DI is not yet ready to

mobilise the masses

solidly.”

cadres sitting on floor

INDONESIAN

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THE MILITARY HAS ACCUSED THEM OF

HAVING COMMUNIST LINKS - A

CRIME WHICH CAN CARRY A

MAXIMUM SENTENCE OF DEATH.

TODAY THE PARTY LEADERS

PLAN THEIR NEXT POLITICAL ACTION

IN SUPPORT OF MEGAWATI.

"So the main target is political

education. The second

pro vocation and agitation over

methods in handing out

leaflets, planning mass actions

and mobilizing the masses.

I think those two targets have to

be evaluated in meetings with

our cadres, or with P DI

in our contact supporters areas

06.50

factory

interior

Budiman walks into safe house

greeted by delegates

IT'S HERE IN INDONESIAS FACTORIES -

THAT THE PRD HAS FOUND

THOUSANDS OF WILLING CONVERTS .

THIS MAINLY FEMALE WORKFORCE

OFIEN TOLS FOR LONG HOURS.

MANY ARE NOT EVEN PAID THE LOW

MINIMUM WAGE.

BUDIMAN HAS ARRANGED TO MEET

ONE OF HIS WORKERS NETWORKS IN

AN OUTLYING SUBURB.

IN A SAFEHOUSE - DELEGATES FROM

SEVERAL OF JAKARTA'S BIGGEST

FACTORIES - COMPLAIN ABOUT THE

GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED UNIONS.

INDONESIAN

- SUBTITLES

inside the factory we have no

protection

no one protects us

- we really have to fight by

ourselves "

07.33

INDONESIAN SUBTITLES

THESE FACTORY ORGANISERS OFTEN

DISTRIBUTE PRD LEAFLETS ON THE

SHOP FLOOR - A RISKY TASK.

grab factory woman

" accidently I was caught by

one of the managers in the

factory and I have already

been interrogated twice by

security officers and I might

be interrogated again at any

time by police"

07.59

THE DELEGATES WELCOME THE PRD'S

ALLIANCE WITH NEGAWATI - BUT

FOR BUDIMAN - IT'S VERY MUCH A

MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE.

08.08

SUPER: BUDIMAN SUDJATMIKO

PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC PARTY

grab Budiman

"Maybe the alliance with P DI is

just tactical, but it has a

strategic political meaning

right now, right now, right

now! Maybe in the future if

there is a change if the political

situation is changed

radically, quickly, maybe we

could take another tactic for

achieving democratisation in

Indonesia.

08.33

Muslims praying

v/o: At PDI headquarters it's Friday and

the Faithful have gathered for prayers.

Megawati has become the rallying point

for some strange bed fellows. Muslims

have joined Budiman's Leftists. This is

the world's largest Muslim nation. The

Islam practised here is a far cry from the

radical fundamentalism so feared in the

West but if harnessed it could become a

powerful political force.

09.13

Men gathering around

Abdurrahman Wahid, of

Islamic Scholars League

Abdurrahman Wahid leads the 30

million strong Islamic Scholars League

and he's a Megawati supporter. Like

Megawati, the govemment has tried to

topple him too. With his massive

support base, he's proven a crucial ally.

But so far Abdurrahman Wahid has

refused to call his supporters onto the

streets to bolster Megawati's ranks.

09.44

Interview - Abdurrahman

Wahid, Islamic Scholars

League

It's easy for me to stage a one million

people demonstration against Soeharto

and so forth but that's the very thing

that we precisely shall avoid (by)

because the proceeding then out of-

let's say - discontent or out of sudden

fear or out of misunderstanding about

the situation, won 't be put in a position

that there is no way for him except to

use force and I don 't want - you know

- blood shed in Indonesia just for the

purpose of bringing down o fa

President. It isn 't worth it.

10.35

"Garuda One" taxi-ing to

A stop

flunkies on the tarmac.

palace press corps

Suharto dis-embarks

gree ted by officials

INSIDE THIS AIRCRAFT IS THE MAN

WHOSE PRESENCE TOWERS ABOVE

INDONESIA....THE MAN

ABDURACHMAN WAHID SAYS HE

DOESNT WANT TO PROVOKE.

PRESIDENT SOEHARTO HAS JUST

RETURNED TO JAKARTA AFTER

MEDICAL TREATMENT IN GERMANY.

HIS ABSENCE HEIGHTENED

SPECULATION ABOUT THE SINGLE-

MOST ILYfrORTANT ISSUE IN

INDONESIAN POLITICS -THE

PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION.

11.03

family leaves plane.

troops

saluting motorcade

ENGLISH

SUPER; ABDURRAHMAN

WAHID

ISLAMIC SCHOLARS LEAGUE

AFTER 3 DECADES IN POWER - THE 75

YEAR OLD PRESIDENT IS SHOWING

FEW SIGNS THAT 1--1E INTENDS TO STEP

DOWN.

Grab Abdurrahman Wahid

' 'It should be done earlier

(laughs) maybe 10 years ago.

So you know now it's very late for Us although 1 don't know whether its too late

11.38

Golkar youth rally

Golkar yellow and black cam.

uniforms.

youth presented with uniform

golkar youth "attack" elders

with sticks/ bayonets.

IN INDONESIA'S COLOUR-CODED

POLITICS, YELLOW IS THE COLOUR OF

GOLKAR - SOEHARTO'S RULING

PARTY.

MARTIAL OVERTONES OF THE

COUNTRY'S POLITICS ARE ON FULL

DISPLAY AT THIS YOUTH RALLY

DESIGNED TO DRUM UP SUPPORT

AHEAD OF NEXT YEAR'S

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS.

20 NflLLION YOUNG PEOPLE WILL BE

VOTING FOR THE FIRST TIME - AND

GOLKAR IS INTENT ON WINNING THEM

OVER

THIS DISPLAY OF POWER IS DESIGNED

TO INTPRESS RECRUITS.

THE PARTY ELDERS ARE

SYMBOLICALLY ATTACKED - BUT

GOLKAR'S LEADERS DRAW ON

MYSTICAL FORCES TO FEND OFF THE

NEW ORDERS OPPONENTS.

Agung in the stands

watching the snake show

WATCHING THE SHOW IS

BUSINESSMAN AGUNG LAKSANA -

WHOSE SUCCESS DEPENDS ON THE

CONTINUED STABILITY OF THE NEW

ORDER.

HIS POST ON GOLKAR'S CENTRAL

BOARD PLACES HIM AT THE VERY

HEART OF THE COUNTRY'S POLITICAL

ELITE.

12.53

Agung at home in civilian clothes

with his family (tilt down from

portrait??)

AWAY FROM THE HOOPLA - AGUNG

LAKSAN ENJOYS THE SPOILS OF HIS

SUCCESS.

HIS CHILDREN ARE HOME ON SUMMER

VACTION FROM EXPENSIVE SCHOOLS

IN THE U.S.

LAKSANA'S NEW ORDER CREDENTIALS

ARE IMPECCABLE.

13.11

walks down stairs to meet Michael.

walk through bad-taste house

out to parked BMW

BMW sweeps past front of house

new office blocks -

central Jakarta.

construction

expensive

shopping arcade

monied types getting in/out of their

flash cars.

HIS MEMBERSHIP OF GOLKAR, HIS

BUSINESS CONNECTIONS - AND A SEAT

IN THE NATIONAL PARLIAMENT - ARE

THE PASSPORTS WHICH HAVE TAKEN

1--11M TO THE TOP.

ITS PEOPLE LIKE LAKSANA WHO

HAVE MOST TO LOSE IF THERE'S A

CHANGE IN TI--IE STATUS QI-JO.

THIS IS LAKSANA'S JAKARTA......

BARELY RECOGNIZABLE FROM A

DECADE AGO..... THESE ARE THE FRUITS

OF GROWTH AND STABILITY UNDER

THE NEW ORDER.

LAKSANA DOESNT WANT THAT

STABILITY DISTURBED.

13.48

interview in BMW

ENGLISH

SUPER: AGUNG LAKSANA

GOLKAR BOARDMEMBER

 Car sweeps

through streets.

grab Laksana

To implement democratisation

in Indonesia should be gradual

- step by step. And now its

more and more better than 5

years ago, ten years ago, or

twenty years ago more open.

But of course we cannot adopt

democracy like America, like

liberal - in one day no.

in moving BMW

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Q.lt must be good for Golkar

then in the next election you

don't have as much

competition. ?

"We don't want to take

advantage for P DI problem we

dont..(pause...smiles)'

14.38

travelling sequence

Amir and Michael walk down

mountain paddies

shows Michael Golf course

hack golfers

Amir and michael cross bridge from

paddies to golf course.

OUT IN THE COUNTRYSIDE - WHERE

GOLKAR IS TRYING HARDEST TO

STRENGTHEN ITS SUPPORT - THE NEW

ORDER HAS ALSO BEEN ALIENATING

VOTERS.

AMIR - LIKE MORE THAN HALF OF HIS

FELLOW INDONESIANS ONCE EARNED

HIS LIVING FROM THE LAND.

THAT WAS BEFORE THE MILITARY -

AT TI--IE BEHEST OF DEVELOPERS -

MEMBERS OF THE THE NEW ORDER

ELITE - FORCED HIM FROM HIS

VEGETABLE PLOTS TO MAKE WAY FOR

A GOLF COURSE......OFFERING

COMPENSATION OF ONLY A FRACTION

OF THE LANDS WORTH.

NOW HE'S REDUCED TO PART-TINIE

LABOURING AND WATCHING

WEEKEND GOLFERS HACK AWAY ON

THE TURF HE ONCE PLOUGHED. DESPITE INTIMIDATION FROM THE

AUTHORITIES. AMIR REMAINS

DEFIANT.

15. 22

Amir and Michael walking/talking

i/v on the green.

INDONESIAN - SUBTITLES

SUPER: AMIR

Grab Amir

Q. "Is this your land?

A. Yes, this is my land, but now

it becomes a golf course. This

golf course is just for a small

number of people while those

who are suffering make up 287

families. Maybe more than 1500

people have been sacrificed for

the sake of 'a small number of

people. So I will fight to the

end for my right to this land"

15.52

tilt down from

golf course to farmers in

paddies.

static i/v with Amir

golf course backdrop.

INDONESIAN - SUBTITLES

IN CROWDED JAVA, STORIES LIKE

AMIRS ARE COMMON.

TOGETHER WITH LABOUR ISSUES,

DISPUTES OVER LAND ARE THE MAJOR

CAUSE OF DEEPENING OPPOSITION TO

THE GOVERNMENT.

grab Amir

Sukarno always fought for the

small people

maybe Mega wati

-as his daughter will also fight

fiercely for the small people

We can see from

history that Sukarno was not

cocky, did not display wealth

that is why he was embraced by

the people "

16.32

Megawati shows Michael portrait of

her father

Megawati pointing at portrait

ENGLISH

SUPER: MEGAWATI

SUKARNOPUTRI

FOR ryEGAWAT1 SUKARNOPUTRI HER

FATHER REMAINS A ROMANTIC

FIGURE.

grab Mega wati

"you know we can see the spirit

of it especially in the

background

our flag it is

very dynamic

the red and

white colours

and I think it is

the symbol of the Indonesian

spirit at the time"

17.03

Megawati arrives at a PDI rally.

ENGLISH

SUPER: ARIF BUDIMAN

POLITICAL COMMENTATOR

IT NOW REMAINS FOR NEGAWATI TO

PROVE THAT SHE CAN LIVE UP TO HER

FATHER'S NAME...BUT THERE ARE

THOSE WHO DOUBT SHE CAN

EFFECTIVELY HARNESS ALLL THESE

STRANDS OF OPPOSITION TO TAKE ON

SUHARTO'S NEW ORDER.

Grab A rif Budiman.

"Her background really makes

it difficult to predict because

as we know\ as a teenager

Megawati was raised in the

palace. She was a princess. She

was being served by many

servants maybe. She had no

record as an activist unlike

Sukarno when he was young.

17.38

QUESTION - ENGLISH

INDONESIAN

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grab Mega wati

Q. (English) What does

Mega wati Sukarnoputri

stand

for?

A (Indonesian) (Laughs.) ..

Whate ver happens,

I 'm doing

this because I have strong

beliefs and have a purpose in life.

' 'As I've said before, when this

nation or Republic was created

through all the difficulties

the aim of the people was

achieve a free country

and

that's what democracy should

be all about"

18.03

PTC outside of PDI HQ.

'With the Government and the

powerful Armed Forces

lined

up against

them

Megawati's

supporters kept up their

demostrations

longer

than

many people expected them to.

But while

Indonesia's

opposition groups are now

more active than they've been

in decades,

they're also dogged

by a lack of unity.

There's widespread

agreement

here that

if the democracy

movement is to succeed

members of the country's elite

will have to break ranks and

join the protestors"

18.32

protestors and army walking side by

side.

INEVITABLE COMPARISIONS HAVE

BEEN DRAWN WITH THE PHILIPPINES

AND IT'S PEOPLE'S POWER

REVOLUTION IN 1986.

THERE, THE DEFECTION OF LVEMBERS

OF THE ARMED FORCES TIPPED THE

BALANCE.

SUPER: ARIF BUDIMAN

POLITICAL COMMENTATOR

A rif Budiman grab.

Q. Would the military, or

sections of the military move

against Soeharto?

' 'For sure we know there are

some factions among the

military

those who want to

maintain the status quo and the

other ones that wants to

change the status quo but they

are not in public. Sometimes

they kind of erupt into public

But I think

there is a possible chance

there

that

something

significant might happen

Paramilitaries erect

barbed

wire barricades

BACK AT PDI HEADQUARTERS -

FEARING AN ASSAULT BY THE

MILITARY -FLIMSY DEFENCES HAVE

BEEN ERECTED.

IN THESE VOLATILE CONDITIONS - IT'S

HARD TO PREDICT WHAT WILL

HAPPEN NEXT OR TO GAUGE JUST HOW

MUCH CONTROL MEGAWATI HAS OVER

EVENTS.

BUT SO FAR, SHE'S DEFIED

EXPECTATIONS THAT SHE'D DETOUR

FROM HER CURRENT COLLISION

COURSE WITH THE NEW ORDER.

TI--IE QUESTION NOW IS WHETHER THE

DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT WILL

SURVIVE THE INEVITABLE IMPACT.

19.51

ENDS