Election violations found

Election violations found

SEMARANG, Central Java: Activists from the provincial branch
of the United Development Party have accused local community
leaders of electioneering.

A number of neighborhood chiefs in Tegal city, Pemalang
regency, reportedly visited prospective voters in the area and
persuaded them to vote for the ruling Golkar group in the 1997
general election.

"Those neighborhood chiefs are not personnel of Golkar. How
dare they launch this so-called political survey on the pretext
that they were taking an inventory of Golkar's members," said the
party chapter's deputy chairman Djuhad Mahya.

Djuhad said yesterday that the branch will report the
violations to Minister of Home Affairs Moch. Yogie S.M and the
House of Representatives.

"If the minister wishes to look for himself, I'll take him
there," he said. (har/swe)