PPP, provided loyal opposition throughout the Suharto years, and has anyway since succumbed to an internal rift.

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At worst, of course, they run the risk of opening another internal rift that will make them even less electable.

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Within the Muslim world there has been and continues to be an internal rift, an often violent confrontation among sects, ideologies, and interpretations of the message of Islam.

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