It is June 1999
Thirteen months ago, the Asian Financial Crisis and the fires of May 1998 brought down President Suharto’s thirty-two-year Orde Baru (New Order) dictatorship. Within the hour, you, Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, a German-trained aeronautical engineer, lifelong technocrat, and Suharto’s own handpicked Vice President, were sworn in as the third President of the Republic of Indonesia. Almost no one in Jakarta or Washington gave your accidental presidency ninety days to live.
On June 7, more than 105 million Indonesians voted in the nation’s first free legislative election since 1955. Opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri’s PDI-P has swept to a commanding plurality, and her supporters are already celebrating the end of your administration.
Under the 1945 Constitution as it stands in 1999, however, voters do not directly elect the President. In four months, on October 19, 1999, all 700 delegates of the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) will convene in Senayan to vote by secret ballot on your constitutional Accountability Speech.
If 351 delegates vote to reject your speech, your presidency is over before the presidential ballot even begins.
Twilight of the Banyan Tree is a work of historical political simulation based on primary memoirs, parliamentary records, Komnas HAM / TGPF fact-finding reports, and contemporaneous 1998–1999 press archives.
Gameplay
- A 23-turn campaign from June to October 1999. Every turn is a real crisis from Habibie’s 17 months in office, and each one forces a choice. You will not have the political capital to fix everything.
- Balance seven national stats that affect each other:
- Popularity
- Military Support
- Reformasi Credibility
- Economic Health
- International Standing
- National Stability
- Cendana Influence
- Balance faction loyalties, enact laws or decrees, and manage the Political Capital economy.
- 4 difficulty levels.
- 34 Achievements.
- Auto-saving.
- In-game library.
Interface
- Windows 95-inspired desktop UI with a Start menu, taskbar and loading screens.
- Switchable window styles.
- Customizable color schemes, desktop color, and custom background.
- Built-in music player.
- Mobile support.
Roadmap
- Indonesian translation with a reworked localization system (Version 0.2)
- 1999 Presidential Election (Version 0.3)
- Dynamic epilogues based on player choice (Version 0.4)
- Rework gameplay to make it more dynamic; rework music & SFX; more achievements; mobile tweaks (Version 0.5)
- Improved mobile experience (Version 0.6)
- Modding support (Version 0.7)
- Full Release (Version 1.0)
Links & Source
Twitter: @MeniirIII
GitHub: Source Code