Jakarta. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono urged the country’s media organizations on Tuesday to respect the need for balanced coverage of the presidential election campaign, as incidences of favoritism continued to chip away at the overall picture of fairness in the country’s TV political reporting.
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono officially opened the national coordination meeting in preparation for the presidential election ahead of the event on July 9, 2014.
The Indonesian Scavengers Association (IPI) donated money to presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto and his running mate Hatta Rajasa on Monday.
IPI secretary general Andilado said that even though they did not donate a large amount of money to the political pair, which is listed as Number One on the ballots for the presidential election, they hoped that it would be a help to Prabowo's campaign, as reported by kompas.com.
With presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto of the Gerindra Party managing to improve his approval rating over the past few weeks, analysts predict that the July 9 poll will be a tight race that neither candidate will win with a landslide.
“Both candidates’ chances of winning are now equal and the race will be very competitive. Jokowi supporters should not be complacent because the tables can turn at any time,” political analyst Burhanuddin Muhtadi of the pollster Indikator Politik Indonesia told The Jakarta Post on Monday.
The Democratic Party says though it will officially remain neutral in the July 9 presidential election, it will allow its members to vote how the please.
Democratic Party deputy secretary-general Ramadhan Pohan said party chairman President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono would not push party members toward either presidential ticket.
Presidential hopeful Joko Widodo has said that he wants a “no-condition coalition” formed without horse trading for cabinet seats, but analysts are sceptical that his vision will be achieved.
The presidential hopeful said he wants to build a new tradition devoid of these petty political transactions that swell the number of cabinet seats.
The General Elections Commission (KPU) announced that the Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa presidential ticket would be listed as number 1 on ballots for the presidential election following an election number draw at the commission’s headquarters on Sunday.
Meanwhile, rivals Joko “Jokowi” Widodo-Jusuf Kalla will be listed at number 2 on ballots, kompas.com has reported.
During the event, Jokowi and Kalla were given first turn to pick a number.
The General Elections Commission (KPU) announced that the Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa presidential ticket would be listed as number 1 on ballots for the presidential election following an election number draw at the commission’s headquarters on Sunday.
Meanwhile, rivals Joko “Jokowi” Widodo-Jusuf Kalla will be listed at number 2 on ballots, kompas.com has reported.
During the event, Jokowi and Kalla were given first turn to pick a number.
Jakarta. For all the allegations of war crimes and human rights abuses re-emerging against Prabowo Subianto, the presidential candidate has at least been spared the ignominy of religious intolerance accusations.
Until now, that is, as the party of his running mate, Hatta Rajasa, seeks to win over the Islamic hard-line fringe, in a complete affront to the values in which it was conceived.
Neither old elites nor populists have answer for workers and poor
Iyan, CWI Malaysia
It was inappropriate for Gerindra Party politicians to criticize Joko "Jokowi" Widodo over his performance as the governor of Jakarta as Gerindra was among the parties that endorsed Jokowi's candidacy during the gubernatorial election in 2012, according to a Golkar Party politician.
Poempida Hidayatullah, a Golkar lawmaker in the House of Representatives who refused to obey Golkar’s instruction to support presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto, slammed Gerindra's deputy chairman, Fadli Zon, for making statements about the "failures" of Jokowi's administration in the capital.
Both presidential and vice-presidential pairs, Joko "Jokowi" Widodo-Jusuf Kalla and Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa, have promised to improve the country's infrastructure if elected.
According to their mission statement, available on the General Elections Commission (KPU) website, Jokowi and Kalla have promised to build a 2,000 kilometers of roads across the country, in addition to building new ports, airports and industrial estates to support the country's economy, as reported by tempo.co.
The National Police are preparing to dispatch 372 personnel to improve security for presidential and vice presidential candidates in the lead up to the July 9 election.
Insp. Gen. Putut Eko Bayuseno of the National Police’s security maintenance division said that personnel would assemble a special security team, which would begin working following the General Elections Commission (KPU) formal announcement of Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle’s (PDI-P) Joko “Jokowi” Widodo-Jusuf Kalla and Gerindra Party’s Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa as the official tickets in the race.
The General Elections Commission (KPU) has completed its audit of the 2014 legislative election-campaign fund reports submitted by the 12 parties that had contested the April 4 poll.
KPU chairman Husni Kamil Manik said that the commission had found no indication that any of the parties had violated campaign fund regulations.
Bandung, West Java (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) did not coalesce with many political parties because many of them have asked for ministerial positions as compensation, stated presidential candidate Joko Widodo, popularly known as "Jokowi".
"We refuse to coalesce with many political parties because some of the parties want six, eight, and even eleven of their cadres to be made ministers," Jokowi remarked during his political oration in Bandung.
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is also general chairman of Democratic Party (PD), said it was Prabowo Subianto and Hatta Rajasa who planned to present their vision and mission in front of PD cadres.
"I have never asked, let alone obliged presidential candidates to present their vision and mission in front of me," Yudhoyono said on his Twitter account on Thursday.
A number of Indonesian expatriates living in Egypt spoke with vice-presidential candidate Jusuf Kalla via video link on Wednesday, conveying their support for the former vice president who is the running mate of presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo.
"We are declaring an alliance of Indonesians in Egypt to show our support for Jokowi and Kalla to become Indonesia's next president and vice president," said a student via the video conference.
Jakarta. Two tickets running in Indonesia’s upcoming presidential election revealed the major compositions of their respective campaign teams last week; one is filled with a vast rank of veteran politicians plus retired Army generals, while the other is likely gathering an army of young intellectuals.
The Constitutional Court (MK) refused to process 196 cases of legislative election disputes on Wednesday evening.
Lawsuits on 192 disputes were filed by political parties, while the remainder were from individual candidates.
“The cases will not be continued to authentication examinations,” said presiding judge Hamdan Zoelva in reading out the interlocutory verdict on the 2014 legislative election dispute cases at the court as quoted bytribunnews.com.
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