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Legislative and presidential elections were conducted respectively on 5 April, 5 July and 20 September 2004, in the new emerging democracy, Indonesia. Aside from its imprefect preparation and implementations, compare to the previous general elections in the country, it can be said that the legislative election were conducted in a more democratic way than in the past. After more than four decades, for the first time indonesians went to the poll and directly choose their representatives through a combination of an individuals candidate and party list systems, by which people had an alternative choice of parliamentary candidates from every party to be elected. More importantly, was the first time the people directly elected their president  and vice president after more than a half century since the country proclaims its independence from the Dutchcolonial government. |
