Fishermen skip Indramayu election

INDRAMAYU, West Java: An estimated 80,000 fishermen did not vote in the Indramayu regency election on Sept. 22, said Bachtiar of the Indramayu General Elections Commission on Monday.

The fishermen were among the 379,992 eligible voters who chose not to cast their ballots in the election, said Bachtiar. A total of 1,224,122 people were eligible to vote in the election.

A number of fishermen said they chose to skip the election because they did not trust any of the candidates. They said past experience had taught them that politicians did not fight for the interests of the people, so voting was a waste of time.

The election was won by the candidates from the Golkar Party, M.S. Syaifuddin and his running mate Herry Sudjati, who received 570,037 votes. -- JP