Questioning votes
\nof civil servants<\/p>\n
From Rakyat Merdeka<\/p>\n
With the 2004 general election approaching and candidates for
\nthe posts of president and vice president being proposed by
\npolitical parties and even non-governmental organizations,
\npolitical observers are still questioning the distribution of
\nvotes to be cast by civil servants.<\/p>\n
As members of the Civil Servants Corps (Korpri), civil
\nservants and their families account for 35 million votes, which
\nare at present neutral but can be expected later to be divided
\namong five major parties. These five are the Indonesian
\nDemocratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan), the National
\nMandate Party (PAN), the United Development Party (PPP), the
\nNational Awakening Party (PKB) and the Golkar Party. The rising
\nCrescent Moon Party (PBB) might also expect to get some of the
\nvotes.<\/p>\n
Because this is the postreform era, none of the five parties
\nhave secured a majority of the votes. So the support of Korpri
\nmembers will go to the top first to seven parties from the 1999
\nelections, in varying degrees. All the other parties expected to
\ntake part in the upcoming elections will further fragment the
\nsupport of the civil servants.<\/p>\n
However, projections on the distribution of civil servants'
\nvotes depend on which parties can offer convincing guarantees of
\nimproved public welfare. Provisional estimates may be that in the
\n2004 elections, almost half of the Korpri members will vote for
\nPDI Perjuangan, with 20 percent voting for Golkar, 20 percent for
\nPAN, 15 percent for PPP and 5 percent for PKB or PBB.<\/p>\n
UMIYATI
\nJakarta<\/p>",
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