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Although Indonesia has entering reform-era since years ago, but nevertheless, there are some political-parties that is run in very undemocratic way. One of that political-parties is Golkar, a party that ever governed Indonesia for about 30 years under the new order regime. In connected with local election held recently in North Sumatera, a dynamic province in Indonesia, Golkar openly and even blatantly showed its muscles. Golkar, in this way, decided only one candidate for the governor election. Based on that decision, Golkar instructed all of its cadeers around the region, to secure its candidate. No one else -- within the party rank --is allowed to run for candidacy. Those who dared to oppose that decision will get hard political sanction. When people gave their votes, the Golkar candidate get s very small part of votes. This is the result of its own undemocratic way it introduce.