PPP rejects reelection of Tangerang mayor<\/p>\n
TANGERANG (JP): The United Development Party (PPP) faction in
\nthe Tangerang Mayoralty Legislative Council announced yesterday
\nthat their members would not reelect Mayor Djakaria Mahmud for a
\nsecond five-year term.<\/p>\n
Faction chairman M. Sayuti said PPP would also ask the
\nminister of home affairs, through the West Java governor, to
\ntemporarily assign a replacement until the next mayor is
\ninstalled.<\/p>\n
\"We hope the resignation letter Djakaria signed on April 16
\nwill be processed soon,\" said Sayuti.<\/p>\n
The mayor for the 1998\/2003 term is to be elected in a special
\nsession next week.<\/p>\n
According to Sayuti, PPP made its decision in response to
\ngrowing public demand. There have been continuous anti-Djakaria
\ndemonstrations at the council all this month asking that he not
\nbe given a second term.<\/p>\n
PPP also received letters signed by 10 subdistrict heads and
\n44 mayoralty officials who threatened to resign from their
\nrespective positions if Djakaria refused to quit.<\/p>\n
The statement signed by nine PPP members was read at noon in
\nfront of hundreds of demonstrators who had been sitting in the
\ncompound since morning.<\/p>\n
The anti-Djakaria protesters, including pedicab drivers,
\ncalled themselves members of Islamic Unity Forum, Tangerang
\nRescue Forum and Tangerang Students Forum.<\/p>\n
Their spokesman, Tb. Mahdi, urged the council to dismiss the
\nmayor, investigate the wealth of all mayoralty officials and
\nensure the suspects are tried in court.<\/p>\n
They also demanded the council dismiss some of the
\ncouncilors, including Ety Margawati and Imas Nandy, who are wives
\nof mayoralty officials and that the local authorities revoke all
\npermits of bars and karaoke halls operating here.<\/p>\n
The Indonesian Democratic Party faction agreed with the
\nprotesters' demands and the PPP but it is unclear whether its
\nstatement was read out in front of the protesters.<\/p>\n
The Armed Forces faction decided to reject the demands and
\nGolkar representatives said they would report to their central
\nboard in Jakarta before making a final decision. (41\/jun)<\/p>",
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