Amien Rais meets Karawang farmers

Amien Rais meets Karawang farmers

RENGAS DENGKLOK, West Java: Presidential hopeful Amien Rais of
the National Mandate Party (PAN), met hundreds of farmers in
Rengas Dengklok, Karawang regency here on Monday.

Amien promised the farmers that if elected, he would stop
importing rice and would raise the price of locally grown rice.
"More than 60 percent of the country's population are farmers.
But the government has often neglected them," he told the
farmers. To impress the farmers, Amien took off his shoes and
walked into the muddy paddy field to meet the farmers. --JP