Liputan6.com
- March 12, 2009
In the
Central Java city of Yogyakarta, scores of students from the Gajah Mada
University held campaigns at a number of different university faculties calling
for an election boycott.
The students
said they were pessimistic that there were any political parties or legislative
candidates that would struggle for cheap education.
In speeches
on the campus grounds the students called for the elections to be canceled
because there were no guarantees that they would bring prosperity to the
ordinary people.
Boycott
threats
Threats to
boycott the 2009 elections were also raised in a number of other parts of the
country. In the West Java regency of Sukabumi, for example, employees from PT
Davomas confirmed that they would not take part in the elections.
The reason
being that House of Representatives (DPR) members have been unable to resolve
the problems they are facing. Yet members of the DPR’s Commission IX who came
to meet with them had promised that they would solve their problems.
Depok
In the West
Java city of Depok meanwhile, hundreds of residents demonstrated at the Depok
city hall because their names were not included in the final voter list. In
addition to unfurling banners, they provided evidence that their names were not
included on the electoral list.
The
residents were protesting at the city hall because lower ranking government
officials had failed to include them in the Depok city final voters list.
(ADO/Tim Liputan 6 SCTV)
[Translated
by James Balowski.]
