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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