Megawati and Journalists

Megawati and Prabowo Subianto ticket were also busy with various campaigning activities Friday. Megawati received journalists from several media outlets for an interview, while Prabowo left for Garut, West Java.

As stated in a press release from the Mega-Pro media center, Prabowo was in Garut to meet with several informal leaders before signing another political contract with representatives from fishing communities in Indramayu, also in West Java, on Saturday.

Prabowo has devised and signed a number of political contracts with representatives from labor unions, students and farmers so far on the campaign trail.

A crowd wave to the limousine carrying former Indonesian president and leader of the Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), Megawati Sukarnoputri after a campaign run at commercial center in Jakarta on June 17, 2009. Megawati is running against incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President and Golkar party leader Jusuf Kalla in the three-cornered race for the July 8, 2009 presidential election.

Sources : Jakarta Post, Daylife.com

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Megawati Go For Grass Root

Unlike for most people, the weekends are not a break from a hard week's work for the presidential candidates.

After spending the week projecting their vision, mission and political platforms nationwide through national media to the whole society, this weekend they all change campaign strategy to focus locally and at grassroots level.

Megawati Soekarnoputri and her running mate Prabowo Subianto started on Saturday a two-week safari campaign around Java.The Megawati-Prabowo campaign team has since long planned the tour of Java for the remaining weeks of the campaign season, aiming at the heartland of their political support until the eve of polling day.

"The national campaign team will cover Java in the coming two weeks. Megawati and her entourage start with campaign buses from Jakarta Cipanas, Bandung and other towns and villages along the Southcoast areas, while Prabowo and his team kick off their safari from Indramayu in West Java taking in other towns and villages along the Northcoast," Hasto Kristianto, member of the campaign team, said before Megawati's departure here on Saturday.

Java plays a strategic role in the presidential election because the island, only one third the size of Papua or Sumatra, is home to 62 percent of the 230 million population of Indonesia and includes the strongholds of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) and of the former president Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid and his National Mandate Party (PKB), which also nominated the Megawati-Prabowo ticket.

Sources : Jakarta Post

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Megawati, Kalla motion for more lively debates

Dicky Christanto and Erwida Maulia , The Jakarta Post , JAKARTA | Sat, 06/20/2009 10:36 AM | Headlines

Dissatisfied with their first appearances, Megawati and Jusuf Kalla challenged their rival, incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, for more lively debates in the remaining sessions.

The Jusuf Kalla (JK)-Wiranto campaign team said Thursday's televised public debate had shown Kalla's weaknesses, and had convinced him of his strengths and chances to take the lead in the next.

"JK will appear in his straight-forward public speaking [manner] in answering [questions about]
actual issues, and outlining his economic program," Ali Mochtar Ngabalin, a member of the Kalla-Wiranto campaign team said here on Friday.

Ali said his team has proposed to the General Election Commission (KPU) to have the moderator give candidates a chance to discuss their own visions and programs.

"It is important to let the people get a whole picture of the candidates," he said.

Mahendradatta, a member of the Megawati-Prabowo campaign team, shared similar views, adding that Megawati was better than her Thursday appearance and that she would be better off if candidates were given a chance to debate.

"She could use the Lapindo issue to 'attack' her rivals' and convince the audience of what she will do to win the hearts of the people," he said, adding that the remaining two sessions were a chance for her to show her capacity and sincerity in working for the public.

In contrast to the other two candidates, incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his campaign team were satisfied with the polite debate, saying they saw no need to change the format or material.

"SBY answered all questions correctly and seriously, to convince the people," Yudhoyono-Boediono campaign team chairman Hatta Radjasa said.

He added his team was focusing on campaigning for SBY in rural areas across the country.

However, Bara Hasibuan, a member of the SBY team, said they wanted the next debate to be more exciting by allowing candidates to stand head to head.

Commenting on the first debate, political experts were not impressed in the three candidates' polite appearances, or the fact that the moderator gave them no opportunity to discuss issues further.

“Last night’s event did not deserve to be called a debate. Each candidate tried their best to look good in front of their constituents by playing the 'good and polite politician”, said Laurer Heydir, a public administration expert.

A political expert from the University of Indonesia, Rocky Gerung, also criticized the debates.

“I give them an ‘A’ for politeness and a big ‘minus’ for delivery of substance,” Rocky said.

“The moderator should be given freedom to dig deeper on certain issues. As it stands, the debate is too rigidly scripted,” he said.

Meanwhile, the General Elections Commission (KPU) says it will not likely change the format of the debates to prevent candidates from trading attacks on substance and personality.

“We’ve received criticisms about the debate being boring and having too many pauses, but the debate's format will not likely change,” KPU chief Abdul Hafiz Anshary said. (hdt/fmb)

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MEGAWATI Show Her Concern To The Labour

MEGAWATI SUKARNOPUTRI:

"We need to educate people, including foreign domestic workers, so they understand their rights."

"Even to organise an identity card is still very hard and you sometimes have to pay extra fees. We need to create laws that are concrete and do not discriminate between people."

Eigth Political Contract For Labor Wealthness

1. Refusing outsourcing system, Which is new human exploitation form and give new system that more fair for labour
2. Refusing cheap workers policies for attract foreign investation only
3. Removing illegal levies in the industrial sector
4. stand up for change social labour fund and change the Social labour management with the mandate sytem management
5. Build Labour bank
6. Reformate the labor salary policies
   
7. Revised government policy that contradicted with workers rules and social workers fund rules
8. Refusing National companies privatitation
   

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Megawati Sukarnoputri
President, Indonesia
Age: 57
Country: Indonesia

The 57-year-old Megawati (known as "Mega") came into power in 2001 after the impeachment of former president Abdurrahman Wahid. But being president of the world's largest Islamic nation (in terms of population), one that is a hotbed of anti-Western vitriol, is no easy feat. Besides Islamic militancy, Indonesia faces a host of economic troubles and regional separatism. Megawati's re-election in this fall's runoff contest is no sure thing, but don't expect her to drop out of politics even if she loses.
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Megawati Criticizes Ministers’ Campaign Work

Candidate and former President Megawati Sukarnoputri on Thursday warned that the involvement of several ministers in the campaign teams of the two other candidates could affect their ability to meet their administrative responsibilities.

The ministers, she said, could also abuse their power in supporting their candidates.

“Success team members shouldn’t come from the cabinet because their ministerial duties would be affected,” the former president said at the opening of her campaign’s media center in South Jakarta.

The ministers’ work on the campaign teams could also create conflict within the government, as some support President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s bid and others Vice President Jusuf Kalla.

“There should be no divisions in the cabinet because all of them should be united and shouldn’t fly any party’s flag,” Megawati said. “A minister is owned by neither the president nor the vice president.”

Separately, legal expert Irman Putra Sidin warned the ministers against using their position to aid candidates in the July presidential poll.

Irman said that conflicts of interest might arise among the ministers who joined campaign teams, and he stressed that they should not use their authority to bend election rules.

Meanwhile, presidential spokesman Andi Mallarangeng said that having ministers on campaign teams was acceptable as long as they took leave of their official duties at points during the campaign season.

“That is fine,” Andi said. “And there is a rule about it saying that the ministers can take time off when they join the campaign. On ordinary days, they work for the president during the daytime and undertake their political tasks in the evening.”

He said that there would not be a problem as long as the ministers were able to assist the president when called upon.

As the incumbent, Andi added, Yudhoyono had an interest in having the government run well during his entire term.

He also said he disagreed with the idea that Yudhoyono would benefit from being the incumbent in the race.

“As proof of that, we saw an incumbent presidential candidate lose in 2004. The important thing is the incumbent’s performance,” Andi said, adding that Yudhoyono only used state facilities while on state business and not for his political activities.

State Secretary Hatta Rajasa heads Yudhoyno’s success team, which includes Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Freddy Numberi, Culture and Tourism Minister Jero Wacik and State Minister for Administrative Reform Taufiq Effendi. State Minister for the Acceleration of Development in Underdeveloped Regions Lukman Edy and State Minister for Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises Minister Suryadharma Ali are also members.

Industry Minister Fahmi Idris heads Kalla’s team, which also includes State Minister for National Development Planning Paskah Suzetta and Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare Aburizal Bakrie.

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Megawati most popular among workers

Megawati most popular among workers
Erwida Maulia , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta Fri, 01/23/2009 9:46 AM National
Former president Megawati Soekanorputri and the current Vice President Jusuf Kalla are the most preferable among workers compared to the incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, according to a survey released Thursday.
It said Yudhoyono is seen by most workers as “unfriendly” to them as he failed to improve their welfare.
The survey, conducted last year by the Federation of United State Enterprise Worker Unions, shows that 30.7 percent of 5,123 respondents, from across the country’s 33 provinces, consider Megawati as the best figure who will be able to improve the conditions for Indonesian workers.

Coming second in the survey is Kalla with 19.6 percent of support, followed by Yudhoyono with 12.7 percent.Another presidential hopeful, Prabowo Subianto, a retired three-star Army general, is the fourth most popular with 7.7 percent of support, and Yogyakarta governor Sultan Hamengkubowono X ranked fifth with 6.5 percent.

When asked whether the respondents would vote for Yudhoyono in the July presidential election for a second term in office, 80.6 percent of them said “no” and only 17.2 percent said “yes”.

Federation chairman FX. Arief Poyuono, when announcing the findings, said most workers believed their economic condition under the Megawati administration was better than under the current Yudhoyono government.
“The workers use a simple way to measure the performance of the government. What they see is that the price of Indomie (instant noodles), rice and public transport have now more than doubled compared to when Megawati was president,” he said.

Confirming this statement, the survey found that 65.7 percent of the respondents considered their household economic condition under Yudhoyono’s administration to be worse than under Megawati.
About 80 percent said transportation, education and health are more costly, and 58.7 percent said Yudhoyono has failed in his term to fight poverty and unemployment.
Kalla, however, is dubbed friendlier than Yudhoyono because he responded better to labor issues.
“He has established better communication with labor unions, and is ready to directly call them when hearing about some problems. Perhaps because he is a businessman, he knows how to cope with labor’s problems better,” Arief said.
Megawati’s Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) also leads the survey, with 26.7 percent of the respondents seeing it as the best party to help improve their condition.
Kalla’s Golkar Party ranked second with 20.1 percent of the vote, followed by Prabowo’s Greater Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) with 10.9 percent, the Prosperous Justice Party with 9.7 percent, and the United Development Party with 7.3 percent.
Yudhoyono’s Democratic Party only came seventh with 6.3 percent of the vote.

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PDI Perjuangan, one of the biggest parties done they campaign on Gelora Bung Karno Senayan, at April 4th, 2009. With their General Chairman, Megawati Soekarno Putri, speech to their support to choice PDIP and her for the election 9 April 2009.

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