JP\/3\/SOCCER<\/p>\n
Candidates asked
\nabout soccer<\/p>\n
JAKARTA: The Indonesian Soccer Association (PSSI) challenged
\non Wednesday all five presidential candidates to share their
\nvision on soccer.<\/p>\n
PSSI chairman Nurdin Halid said that two presidential
\ncandidates had confirmed they would attend the debate on Friday
\nat Hotel Hilton. They are Gen. (ret) Wiranto and Amien Rais. He
\nsaid that he was awaiting confirmation from three other
\npresidential candidates, Hamzah Haz, Megawati Soekarnoputri and
\nGen. (ret) Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.<\/p>\n
The debate will be screened by television station TV7 on
\nFriday, from 10.30 p.m. to 12 p.m. -- Antara<\/p>\n
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\nTrail-Mega-blood<\/p>\n
JP\/3\/BLOOD<\/p>\n
Followers told to
\nstop \"bloodshed\"<\/p>\n
SURABAYA: Presidential candidate Megawati Soekarnoputri urged
\nher followers on Wednesday to stop giving their thumbprints in
\nblood, saying that the act could lead to violence.<\/p>\n
\"If they really support me, they should stop this and use
\ntheir energies in other sympathetic action,\" Indonesian
\nDemocratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) secretary-general Sutjipto
\nquoted Megawati as saying.<\/p>\n
The followers of Megawati, who is also the PDI-P leader, shed
\nblood symbolically after Muslim clerics in East Java issued an
\nedict that prohibited Muslims from voting for female candidates.
\n-- JP<\/p>\n
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\nSurabaya-KPU-SBY<\/p>\n
JP\/3\/KPU<\/p>\n
KPU to summon
\nSusilo's campaign team<\/p>\n
SURABAYA: The East Java General Elections Commission will
\nimmediately summon the chairman of the Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
\nand Jusuf Kalla campaign team, in order to seek information on
\nthe alleged involvement of a civil servant in the team.<\/p>\n
The civil servant in question is Fandi Utomo, a lecturer at
\nstate-run Surabaya Technical Institute (ITS).<\/p>\n
Sukemi, a spokesman for the institute, confirmed that Fandi
\nwas a civil servant with the institute, but quickly added that
\nFandi had already tendered his resignation.<\/p>\n
A General Elections Commission decree rules that civil
\nservants, military and police personnel are barred from becoming
\nmembers of campaign teams in the presidential election. -- Antara<\/p>\n
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\nWorkers-president<\/p>\n
JP\/3\/PRESIDENT<\/p>\n
Workers threaten
\nnot to vote<\/p>\n
PONTIANAK, West Kalimantan: Hundreds of workers at two local
\ncompanies here threatened on Wednesday not to vote in the
\nupcoming presidential election unless the government and local
\ncouncillors helped solve their problems.<\/p>\n
\"We have started to collect voter cards, and if they have
\nstill failed to help solve our problems as of July 5, we shall
\nset fire to the cards,\" said Sutjipto, the coordinator of the
\nprotest.<\/p>\n
The workers, from PT Hasil Deliberty and PT Inti Tara Makmur,
\nhave been demanding severance pay, which has not been paid by the
\ncompanies for a few months. -- Antara<\/p>\n
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\nAmien-Pekanbaru-campaign<\/p>\n
JP\/3\/TRAIL<\/p>\n
Amien to
\ncampaign in Riau<\/p>\n
PEKANBARU, Riau: Amien Rais and Siswono Yudohusodo are due to
\nstage another outdoor campaign on Thursday, which will take place
\nin a field in the Riau capital, Pekanbaru. This time, Amien and
\nSiswono will hit town with an entourage of 75 people.<\/p>\n
Fendri Jaswir, head of the Amien-Siswono media center in
\nPekanbaru, claimed that the campaign would be attended by some
\n10,000 people.<\/p>\n
He said that some top supporters of Amien and Siswono would
\nattend the campaign rally, including Reform Star Party (PBR)
\nleader, the preacher Zainuddin M.Z., Freedom Bull National Party
\n(PNBK) leader Eros Djarot and his brother, film director Slamet
\nRahardjo Djarot. -- Antara<\/p>",
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