Letter: The US and civil society in RI
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The Jakarta Post
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Thu, March 11 2010
| 11:38 am
PREMIUM The US is the mother of modern democracy. Since its independence in 1776, the democracy of the US has been challenged many times by various powerful internal narrow interests, who have tried to influence the government for their own narrow interests. The US civil society emerged during that time, and has been strengthened in spite of all these non-democratic attacks, but still it has to continu...
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