Female candidate for Mataram mayor

MATARAM, West Nusa Tenggara: Baiq Diyah Ratu Ganefi, 37, is the first known female candidate for mayor in West Nusa Tenggara.

Antara reported Thursday she was running for the mayor's position in Mataram, for the period of 1999 to 2004.

Baiq Diyah, a lawyer, said she was both surprised and proud on becoming a candidate, adding she had no idea who had proposed her name. She is active in a number of organizations and chairs the crafts, industry and mining section of the provincial chapter of the Indonesian Chamber of Industry and Commerce.