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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