Followers told to stop "bloodshed"

Followers told to stop "bloodshed"

SURABAYA: Presidential candidate Megawati Soekarnoputri urged her
followers on Wednesday to stop giving their thumbprints in blood,
saying that the act could lead to violence.

"If they really support me, they should stop this and use
their energies in other sympathetic action," Indonesian
Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) secretary-general Sutjipto
quoted Megawati as saying.

The followers of Megawati, who is also the PDI-P chairwoman,
shed blood symbolically after Muslim clerics in East Java issued
an edict that prohibited Muslims from voting for female
candidates. -- JP