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The Role and Challenges of Political Parties
Political collaboration between countries occurs most frequently at the executive level, that is, between the government of one country and that of another. At other levels we also hear of inter-parliamentary collaboration between members of parliament from one country and members of parliament from another. It is much less common to encounter collaboration between political parties in one country and political parties in another.
It was with thoughts of this kind in mind that representatives from the seven Indonesian political parties that are the largest in terms of representation in the People’s Representative Council (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat, the Indonesian parliament) were invited by a political foundation in the Netherlands to make a working visit between 25 and 27 April 2007. The seven parties were Golkar, PDI-P, PPP, PD, PAN, PKB and PKS, while the foundation that extended the invitation was NIMD (the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy), a political association that was formed by seven Dutch political parties (four opposition parties and three government parties) with the primary mission of assisting the expansion of democracy in countries considered to be “young democracies”.
