Some 60 parties expected in June poll<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The independent Team of Eleven revealed on
\nMonday only around 60 of the 104 political parties it was
\nexamining were expected to pass screening to contest the June 7
\ngeneral election.<\/p>\n
Mulyana W. Kusumah told The Jakarta Post by telephone from
\nSemarang in Central Java on Monday he had in his hands the names
\nof 12 parties which have met all legal requirements to contest
\nthe elections.<\/p>\n
\"We checked 56 political parties in the first round of the
\nverification stage last week and found only 20 eligible for the
\npolls,\" he said.<\/p>\n
He said the team was making a two-day visit to ten provinces,
\nincluding Central Java, Lampung, North Sumatra and South
\nSulawesi, to examine 40 of the last batch of 48 parties which
\nhave been registered with the team.<\/p>\n
\"The other eight will not be verified because they have
\nchapters in less than nine provinces,\" he said.<\/p>\n
He said the team led by Muslim intellectual Nurcholish Madjid
\nwould hold a plenary session Tuesday night to discuss party
\neligibility for the elections.<\/p>\n
Minister of Home Affairs Syarwan Hamid called on the newly
\nregistered political parties not to be frustrated if they were
\ndisqualified for failing to meet the minimum requirements set by
\nthe government.<\/p>\n
Separately the PKP (Justice and Unity Party) claimed on Sunday
\nthat it had reached an agreement with the PKB (National Awakening
\nParty) and the PDI Perjuangan (Indonesian Democratic Party of
\nStruggle) to establish a coalition to contest the general
\nelection and in forming a new government.<\/p>\n
\"We have reached the agreement. We only need to discuss
\ntechnical problems,\" PKP deputy chairman Tatto Pradjamanggala
\nsaid in Bandung, West Java.<\/p>\n
Tatto said the agreement was recently reached by PKP chairman
\nGen. (ret) Edi Sudradjat, chairman of PKB's Mathori Abdul Djalil,
\nand leader of PDI Perjuangan Megawati Soekarnoputri. He refused
\nto give further details.<\/p>\n
Chairman of the PAN (National Mandate Party) Amien Rais,
\nhowever, played down the significance of the coalition plan.<\/p>\n
\"PAN can set up a coalition with any parties. But it will
\ndepend very much on the result of the elections,\" he said after
\nattending a PAN gathering in Bandung.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in a bid to prepare for possible violence in
\nCentral Java, the leaders of 11 political parties including
\nGolkar, PAN, PKB, PKP and Partai Keadilan (Justice Party) agreed
\non Monday not to mobilize their supporters during the campaign
\nperiod. Instead, they will hold public debates.<\/p>\n
\"The mobilization of the masses is a very dangerous exercise,\"
\naccording to Prabowo from PKP.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the chairman of Central Java's PPP (United
\nDevelopment Party), Karmani, expressed confidence that the 26-
\nyear-old party would win at least 22 percent of the votes.<\/p>\n
\"This number would be adequate for us to nominate our own
\npresidential candidate,\" Karmani said.<\/p>\n
Separately the political leaders in Lampung deplored on Monday
\nthe beating of the chairman of PDI (Indonesian Democratic Party)
\nBudi Hardjono in Lampung by his opponents and said such a
\nshameful act would endanger the growth of democracy.<\/p>\n
\"Differences of views should not be handled physically. This
\nis an arrogant act, and can not be tolerated at all,\" said
\nchairman of the pro-founding president Sukarno Marhaen Party Andi
\nAchmad.<\/p>\n
Budi was leading a ceremony to commemorate PDI's 26th
\nanniversary in Bandar Lampung on Sunday, when the supporters of
\nPDI Perjuangan, chaired by rival Megawati Soekarnoputri, suddenly
\nambushed the venue and beat him up.<\/p>\n
\"It is regrettable that a party should act in such an
\nunsympathetic way,\" provincial Golkar executive Martubi Makki
\nsaid on Monday. (rms\/43\/har\/21\/45\/prb)<\/p>",
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