1997 Indonesian legislative election
Legislative elections were held in Indonesia on 29 May 1997. There were three simultaneous elections in one because voters were electing members of two levels of regional government as well as the national-level People's Representative Council. This was the last election of President Suharto's New Order regime, which collapsed one year later. Like the preceding New Order elections, it was won outright by the Golkar organization.
1997 Indonesian legislative election
United Development Party campaigners in Semarang
Golkar supporters in Semarang, May 1997
The New Order describes the regime of the second Indonesian President Suharto from his rise to power in 1966 until his resignation in 1998. Suharto coined the term upon his accession and used it to contrast his presidency with that of his predecessor Sukarno.
New Order (Indonesia)
Suharto took the presidential oath of office on 27 March 1968.
Suharto on a visit to West Germany in 1970.
Suharto attends 1970 meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement in Lusaka, Zambia.