Cab driver votes for 'P7'

Mon, 05 May 1997, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

JAKARTA: As the election campaign shifts into high gear, more
people have tales to tell of the time they were pressured into
supporting one of the three political contestants.

Wilson, a driver for the Kosti Jaya taxi company, said he was
asked by his village leader if he would vote for the ruling
Golkar. Wilson, a native of predominately-Moslem West Sumatra,
said he would not.

"Are you voting for PPP (the Moslem-based United Development
Party) then?" the neighborhood chief demanded.

"No, I'm a P7," Wilson said. "That's Pergi Pagi Pulang Pagi
Pendapatan Pas-Pasan (Leaving for work in the morning and only
able to return home the next morning, but never earning enough to
make ends meet)." (swe)

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