Jenny Grant, Jakarta – provisional results show that President Suharto's Golkar Party won another landslide victory during Indonesian elections last week. But as Jenny Grant reports from Jakarta, the Muslim Party has come in a strong second because the government damaged the other minority party.

Usman, a Jakarta taxi driver, said he and about 20 of his friends voted for the Muslim-backed United Development Party - The P-P-P - at their village polling booth in Karawang, West Java, Thursday.

But when the count was over, election officials announced the ruling Golkar had won all of the votes at Usman's poling station. Officials claimed there was not one P-P-P vote in the box.

Usman said he and his friends are angry at a system which has shut their voices out.

In the latest tally, Golkar has won around 74 percent of the votes, the Muslim-backed United Development Party 23 percent and the Indonesian Democracy Party less than 3 percent.

But with stories like Usman's all over the country, Golkar has clearly not won the hearts of Indonesians.

Sociologist Arief Budiman says in rural areas villagers are pressured to vote Golkar if they want to maintain good relationships with the village head.

"The majority of Golkar votes come from the village, from peasants, and usually they are afraid. There is a risk not to vote for Golkar. The village heads know if they don't fulfill the target they wil lose their jobs, so they will try very hard to make the villagers vote for Golkar."

All yees are not on the Muslim Party which has already taken the radical step of demanding a re-vote in Provinces where ballots were not counted openly.

In the province of Madura - a P-P-P stronghold - the local governor said the government would consider a re-vote. He said some ballot boxes went missing in election night riots which left two people injured. Mr. Budiman says the government only has itself to blame for the new-found power of the Muslim Party and the weak performance of the Indonesian Democracy Party - the P-D-I.

"The destruction of P-D-I made the P-P-P emerge as the party that confronts the government."

Last year the government and military backed a rebel P-D-I congress which deposed the popular Megawati Sukarnoputri as leader and installed Suryadi to head the party.

Many P-D-I voters switched allegiance to the P-P-P.

The unpopular Mr. Suryadi said on Friday the P-D-I's loss, from 15 percent at the 1992 polls to just under 3 percent, was "drastic". He said party leaders were very concerned about the defeat.

The portest votes and abstentions - known here as Golput - actually beat the P-D-I to third place in the Central Java towns of Yogyakarta and Solo, the protest vote reached between 15 percent and 20 percent.

Political analyst at the University of Indonesia Arbi Sanit said the P-P-P could become a formidable opposition if it aligns itself with pro-democracy forces.

Despite the strong performance of the Muslim P-P-P and riots against the government during the election campaign, Golkar was never seriously challenged for first position.

Juwono Sudarsono, Vice Governor of a military think-tank, The National Defence Institute, says 30 years of Golkar rule has made Indonesians cynical about change.

"It's a general resignation that the forces, both the business and economic forces, are just too strong in favour of the incumbent party and the government."

Golkar is the most efficient and experienced of the three parties after winning six consecutive terms in office. But it will now have to contend with a stronger Muslim voice in national politics.