Jakarta. The ruling Democratic Party will go ahead with its presidential convention to name the party’s presidential candidate, a party official has said.
Jero Wacik, the secretary of the Democrat’s high assembly, said his party would nominate its own presidential candidate and would not put forward the convention winner as a vice presidential candidate for another party, as previously suggested.
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) party wants to see women occupy 30 percent of high positions in the government if the party wins the presidential election bid 2014, partys Chairman Suhardi stated here on Tuesday.
"It is part of partys support toward gender equality and improvement of womens roles in every aspect of life," Suhardi explained.
Jakarta. A proposed coalition of Islamic political parties should back a presidential candidate who prays five times a day at a mosque and will cut short cabinet meetings to lead his ministers in prayer, an official says.
Almuzzammil Yusuf, a senior member of the Prosperous Justice Party, or PKS, said in Jakarta on Monday that a high level of piety should be a “minimal requirement” for any candidate running for the highest office in the Muslim-majority nation.
The United Development Party’s (PPP) national leaders meeting (Rapimnas), which concluded early on Sunday, resulted in the decision to temporarily dismiss Suryadharma Ali from his position as the party’s chairman.
It was said Suryadharma’s dismissal was because he refused to attend the meeting, which was initiated by secretary-general Muchammad Romahurmuziy and attended by more than half of the party’s executives.
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Participants of the United Development Party (PPP) leadership meeting organized by PPP Secretary General Mochammad Romahurmuziy and his group have decided to temporarily dismiss Suryadharma Ali as the party chairman.
"The first leadership meeting of PPP, in line with the partys statute, has corrected the sanction decided in the previous meeting of the PPP executive board from giving Suryadharma Ali the first warning to temporary dismissal," M Romahurmuziy, the leadership meetings secretary, said here on Sunday.
Jakarta. While waiting for the General Elections Committee to release the official results of last week’s election, Indonesia’s political arena continues to keep itself busy with a flurry of activities.
Parties are now evaluating their quick-count results and shaping their latest strategies in facing the upcoming presidential election; the countries election committee is struggling with unresolved problems related to recounts and problematic ballot boxes throughout the archipelago; while the media is scrambling to gauge the final outcome of the unpredictable race.
Jakarta. The April 9 legislative election has brought two surprising results.
First, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), which was predicted to garner a large number of votes with the help of the widely popular Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo as its presidential candidate, only garnered around 19 percent — far below its target of 27 percent.
The second surprise came in the form of five Islamic parties, which analysts had written off as small contenders, performing much better than expected.
Jakarta. The window for registrations for Indonesia’s presidential election in July will open next month, the national polling body announced on Tuesday.
Ferry Kurnia, a member of the General Elections Commission, or KPU, said in Jakarta that the registration period would run from May 18 to 20.
After the registration, the KPU will conduct a verification and administrative check on the documents submitted by the applicants, which should take around days to complete, Ferry said.
KPU will also carry out health check on the candidates.
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Chairman of National Election Committee of the National Mandate Party (PAN) Joncik Muhammad expressed concern with the scheme to divide political parties between coalitions of nationalists and Islamic parties.
"Creating blocks of nationalist and religious parties is a wrong concept. How could we develop the nation if we still allow ourselves divided into such coalitions?" Joncik said here on Wednesday.
JAKARTA: A week after the legislative elections in Indonesia, political parties are working hard to form coalitions to better their chances at the July 9 presidential elections.
Indonesia's top three political parties in this general election -- PDI-P, Golkar and Gerindra -- have become coalition focal points.
Jakarta governor Joko Widodo of the PDI-P, business tycoon Aburizal Bakrie of Golkar and former general Prabowo Subianto of Gerindra are the stalwarts of their parties and likely presidential candidates.
Last Wednesday’s national elections in Indonesia produced an inconclusive result. None of the 10 political parties likely to enter the legislature will be able to claim mass endorsement. There will be an acrimonious tussle within the ruling elite as these parties seek to position themselves for the presidential election on July 9.
The National Awakening Party (PKB) has offered to form an alliance with the Indonesia Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) by putting forward a candidate to fill the vice presidential position, an offer it said was reasonable due to the PKB’s good performance in the recent legislative election.
“It’s reasonable for us as a party with a high number of votes to offer a vice presidential candidate. We’ve proposed this to the PDI-P,” said the head of the PKB’s central executive board Marwan Jafar on Monday as quoted by kompas.com.
The National Mandate Party (PAN), one of the 12 political parties participating in the legislative election, said that repeat elections in a number of areas across the country could potentially affect the party’s votes.
Legal affairs and advocacy head of PAN Didi Suriyanto said that public enthusiasm would be lower than on the legislative election day.
“The voters’ spirit will not be the same as on April 9 [the original election day],” he said on Monday as quoted by kompas.com.
The 15 percent of the popular vote garnered by the Golkar Party in the April 9 legislative election quick count appears to have failed to stop clashes between the party’s rival factions.
The conflict appears to have worsened, with the party’s current chairman Aburizal Bakrie and his camp bracing for a step-up in attacks from other party members in the upcoming national meeting.
Jakarta. Prospects for much-needed reforms in Southeast Asia’s top economy are in doubt after a worse-than-expected election performance by the main opposition left Indonesia staring at an unwieldy coalition government, analysts warn.
The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) won around 19 percent of the vote at Wednesday’s elections, according to initial results, putting it in first place but with less than the 25-30 percent expected.
Jakarta. Media mogul Surya Paloh’s National Democratic Party (Nasdem) has announced that it has thrown its support behind Joko Widodo and the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI-P), as Indonesia’s political parties continue to hold talks to build alliances after last week’s legislative election failed to produce a clear winner.
“We have agreed to join forces to support the presidential candidate of the PDI-P— Nasdem will give its full support,” Surya Paloh, chairman of Nasdem, said in a press conference at the party’s office on Saturday. “We want Indonesia to be great.”
Banda Aceh. Several civil society groups in Aceh have said Wednesday’s legislative elections in the semi-autonomous province were marred by incidences of violence and “money politics” — a frequently used synonym for vote buying.
The Aceh Election Network — an umbrella organization consisting of non-government organizations and civil society groups including Acehnese Civil Society Task Force (ACSTF), Banda Aceh Legal Aid Foundation and Aceh Women Solidarity — issued statements criticizing Wednesday’s vote.
Jakarta. Mistakes in the distribution of ballots for Indonesia’s legislative elections have been found in at least 17 of the nation’s 34 provinces the General Elections Commission (KPU) said on Friday.
Jakarta. The opposition Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) may have emerged with the most votes from Wednesday’s legislative election, but its margin of victory fell far short of what experts and pollsters had predicted.
