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PDI-P bounces back to top position ahead of Golkar<\/p>\n
M. Taufiqurrahman
\nThe Jakarta Post
\nJakarta<\/p>\n
After securing a brief lead in early tallies, the political
\nvehicle of former president Soeharto, the Golkar Party, dropped
\nto second place late on Wednesday with 19.98 percent of the vote,
\nas the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) bounced
\nback to the top position with 20.90 percent.<\/p>\n
As of 10 p.m. the counted votes received by the General
\nElections Commission (KPU) data center for the House of
\nRepresentatives election had reached 17.75 percent or 26,272,619
\nfrom an expected total of 148 million registered voters.<\/p>\n
In a new development, the party of Vice President Hamzah Haz,
\nthe United Development Party (PPP), which slumped on the first
\nday of vote counting, jumped with 8.02 percent of the vote
\nplacing it in fourth position, ahead of rising stars -- the
\nDemocratic party, led by former security minister Susilo Bambang
\nYudhoyono, with 7.78 percent, and the Islamic-based Prosperous
\nJustice Party (PKS) with 7.11 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n
The party of former president Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid, the
\nNational Awakening Party (PKB), remained in third place with
\n13.89 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n
In Jakarta, however, the well-established parties lost their
\nsupremacy to PKS and the Democratic Party which by 10 p.m.
\naccumulated 506,046 votes or 22.64 percent of the vote and
\n468,152 votes or 20.95 percent of the vote respectively.<\/p>\n
The PKS indicated a strong following in the capital when in
\nthe last round of campaigns, it managed to gather more than
\n100,000 supporters within and around the Senayan Sports stadium,
\ncomparable only to the crowd that gathered for the PDI-P rally.
\nThe two parties appeared to enjoy the largest support during the
\n22-day campaign period.<\/p>\n
The Democratic Party owes much of its current success to
\nSusilo, who won the public's heart after he resigned from his
\nministerial post, saying that he had been left out in the cold by
\nMegawati in drawing up security policies.<\/p>\n
In Central Java, one of PDI-P strongholds in the 1999
\nelection, the party garnered 30.40 percent of the vote or
\n1,503,575 votes. Golkar was trailing behind PDI-P with 830,579
\nvotes or 16.78 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n
In West Sumatra, however, Golkar took the lead from the
\nNational Mandate Party (PAN) in the vote tally.<\/p>\n
Golkar garnered 93,481 votes or 27.85 percent, while PAN got
\n52,113 votes or 15.52 percent of a total 335,563 votes.<\/p>\n
In East Java, the stronghold of PKB, the party ranked first
\nwith 2,274,801, while PDI-P came second with 1,669,449 votes.<\/p>\n
In the West Nusa Tenggara regency of East Lombok, the party of
\ncleric Zainuddin MZ, the Reform Star Party (PBR) made a strong
\ndebut garnering 9,245 votes, leaving behind PDI-P with 5,229
\nvotes, and its strongest rival the United Development Party (PPP)
\nwith 4,605 votes.<\/p>\n
This year for the first time Indonesians are also voting for
\ncandidates who will sit in the new Regional Representatives
\nCouncil (DPD) with four representatives for each province. So far
\nwell-known personalities and their relatives have had the
\nadvantage in the list of scores of unfamiliar names. In
\nYogyakarta, the wife of Governor Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X, GKR
\nHemas, ruled the ballot counting with 3,188 votes as of 5 p.m.<\/p>\n
In Central Java, wife of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI)
\nchairman Sahal Mahfudz, Nafisah Sahal, led with 131,176 votes
\nahead of former chairman of the Indonesian Teachers Association
\nSudharto with 115,830 votes. Local media magnate Budi Santoso who
\nearlier was coming second, dropped to third position with 114,086
\nvotes.<\/p>\n
In West Java, former energy minister in the Soeharto
\nadministration Ginandjar Kartasasmita made an early win with
\n26,506 votes.<\/p>\n
In South Sulawesi, Asmawati, the only woman candidate
\ncontesting the DPD election, garnered 2,599 votes or 13.48
\npercent, followed by candidate Jum Perkasa with 1,221 votes or
\n6.33 percent as of 6 p.m.<\/p>",
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