Jakarta – Deputy Speaker of House of Representative (DPR) for Political and Security Affairs, Sutardjo Surjoguritno, and House Commission II received representatives of organizations that demand the DPR disband Golkar Party today. The organizations comprise the working team of 50 Petition, Forum of Islamic Parties Alliance, Committee of Alert to New Order, Marhaen People's Movement, and the executive of Association of Islamic Students (HMI).

The organizations accuse Golkar of being a criminal left over from the New Order. According to Deliar Noer, chairman of Forum of Islamic Parties Alliance, the nation's problem should be attacked at the roots, including disbanding the Golkar party because it legitimized the New Order. This demand, according to the organizations' representatives, is based on a survey held in April 11, 2001 discussing the Golkar party and political crimes of the New Order.

The organizations also explained how criminals of New Order, including former president Suharto, the military, civil bureaucrats, and the Golkar party have been categorized for their crimes. Suharto and the military have been punished by social and political sanctions, and even the bureaucracy had been straightened out, though not yet enough.

Golkar that is the only criminal that has not paid for its past crimes, and according to them, many Golkar supporters now act as heroes that were not at fault for destroying the nation. Sutardjo said he would consider this input but will not promise anything, because it is related to the law and freedom of speech that is guaranteed by democracy.