Tempo
Interactive - March 30, 2009
Palu – On
March 30, activists from the Palu City branch of the Union for the Politics of
the Poor (PPRM) in Central Sulawesi encouraged local residents to reject next
month’s legislative elections.
Actions were
held as several different locations including the Masomba Market, the Inpres
Manonda Market, Birobuli, the Tua Market, the State College of Islamic
Religious Studies, the Muhammadiyah Islamic University and the Tadulako
University.
The PPRM
appealed to the public not to trust the political elite taking part in the
elections. “Our agenda is indeed to oppose the 2009 general elections. So we
have distributed 10 thousand leaflets, containing shameful [information] about
the rotten politicians that are taking part in the elections”, said Palu City
PPRM spokesperson Jamaluddin on Monday.
Similar
actions, said Jamaluddin, will continue to be held in the lead up to the April
9 elections, adding that the current campaigns by the political elite about
bringing prosperity [to the people] are nothing but a daydream.
The PPRM
will be holding massive simultaneous action against the elections in all parts
of Indonesia on April 5.
[Translated
by James Balowski.]
