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From: James Balowski <[email protected]>
Subject: [apsn] Anti-election protesters say Yudhoyono government has failed
To: "APSN News Updates" <[email protected]>, "INDOLEFT"
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Date: Thursday, April 9, 2009, 5:06 PM
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Anti-election protesters say Yudhoyono government
has failed
Waspada Online - April 6, 2009
Medan -- The North Sumatra Union for the Politics of
the Poor Front (FPPRM) believes that the
administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
has failed. Because of this therefore, they are
opposing the 2009 general elections.
In addition to this, seen from the General Election
Commission’s level of preparation and logistics the
FPPRM believes that the government has yet do
demonstrate its seriousness about holding the
elections.
This has been demonstrated in various parts of the
country where there are duplicate voters, political
parties that have not submitted campaign funding
reports plus the many criminal electoral violations
that remain untouched by the law.
“Currently there is no political party that
originates from the people’s movement. The 2009
elections are not political education for the people
but exhibit the buying and selling of votes. If the
2009 elections go ahead, it will result in the
people suffering even further because of the high
price of basic commodities”, said FPPRM
representative Muhammad Roslan.
The solution being offered by the FPPRM is for the
ordinary people to build their own force by uniting
the people themselves like the people’s struggle
against the Suharto dictatorship in 1998. “The
people united will never be defeated”, said Roslan.
(amr/wol-mdn)
[Translated by James Balowski.]
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