Vice presidential candidate Wiranto campaigning in Kota Gede, Yogyakarta, on Friday.
INDONESIA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS 2009 - With the end of the campaign period for the presidential elections looming, the candidates have begun to target specific voters.
Megawati Sukarnoputri campaigned in East Java, while Jusuf Kalla addressed West Java voters. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, meanwhile, stayed in Jakarta.
In line with her camp’s recent approach to drum up support from the working class, Megawati visited the grave of Marsinah, a prominent East Java labor activist who was tortured and murdered in 1993, allegedly at the hands of state security personnel. The mystery of the 24-year-old’s death remains unsolved.
Megawati and several local ulemas offered a prayer at the grave in Nganjuk, East Java.
She did not speak to journalists or locals, who had been waiting for hours at the site to see her.
Megawati’s vice presidential running mate, Prabowo Subianto — a former general in Suharto’s security forces who was allegedly involved in a number of human rights abuses in the past — addressed supporters in Jember, East Java.
Jusuf Kalla visited a number of Islamic boarding schools, known as pesantren , in towns across West Java. He visited three well-known schools: Suryalaya, Salatul Huda and Darussalam.
Abah Anom, an influential cleric who heads the Suryalaya Islamic school, joined Yiyi Abdul Muhyi Aminudin Busthami of the Salatul Huda and Darussalam head Irfan Hilmi to offer their blessings for Kalla’s campaign.
Kallas, accompanied by his wife, Mufidah Kalla, also spent some time in a mosque not far from the Darussalam school, where he performed the Friday prayer with those in attendance.
Kalla also gave a lecture at Suryalaya’s Islamic institute and economics department. In front of more than 1,000 guests, he said that the government should not treat religious schools any differently than state schools.
Yudhoyono, meanwhile, continued his campaign with a series of media visits on Friday. The president, who on Wednesday visited the Kompas newspaper and the Tempo media group, also stopped by the headquarters of Seputar Indonesia and the Republika dailies on Thursday.
He also opened an exhibition of the creative industry and attending a declaration for the national antidrugs movement, to commemorate International Anti-Drugs day in Senayan, South Jakarta.
Yudhoyono was scheduled to take his campaign to Cirebon today.
Megawati Sukarnoputri campaigned in East Java, while Jusuf Kalla addressed West Java voters. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, meanwhile, stayed in Jakarta.
In line with her camp’s recent approach to drum up support from the working class, Megawati visited the grave of Marsinah, a prominent East Java labor activist who was tortured and murdered in 1993, allegedly at the hands of state security personnel. The mystery of the 24-year-old’s death remains unsolved.
Megawati and several local ulemas offered a prayer at the grave in Nganjuk, East Java.
She did not speak to journalists or locals, who had been waiting for hours at the site to see her.
Megawati’s vice presidential running mate, Prabowo Subianto — a former general in Suharto’s security forces who was allegedly involved in a number of human rights abuses in the past — addressed supporters in Jember, East Java.
Jusuf Kalla visited a number of Islamic boarding schools, known as pesantren , in towns across West Java. He visited three well-known schools: Suryalaya, Salatul Huda and Darussalam.
Abah Anom, an influential cleric who heads the Suryalaya Islamic school, joined Yiyi Abdul Muhyi Aminudin Busthami of the Salatul Huda and Darussalam head Irfan Hilmi to offer their blessings for Kalla’s campaign.
Kallas, accompanied by his wife, Mufidah Kalla, also spent some time in a mosque not far from the Darussalam school, where he performed the Friday prayer with those in attendance.
Kalla also gave a lecture at Suryalaya’s Islamic institute and economics department. In front of more than 1,000 guests, he said that the government should not treat religious schools any differently than state schools.
Yudhoyono, meanwhile, continued his campaign with a series of media visits on Friday. The president, who on Wednesday visited the Kompas newspaper and the Tempo media group, also stopped by the headquarters of Seputar Indonesia and the Republika dailies on Thursday.
He also opened an exhibition of the creative industry and attending a declaration for the national antidrugs movement, to commemorate International Anti-Drugs day in Senayan, South Jakarta.
Yudhoyono was scheduled to take his campaign to Cirebon today.
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