Sat, 13 Mar 2004

Journalists query campaign prep

YOGYAKARTA: Local journalists questioned on Friday political party preparations in the election campaign.

"I doubt whether the political parties are ready to campaign. It is the second day of the campaign, but the political parties are willing yet to inform poll organizer on where they will campaign and who will be the campaigners," said Yuyuk Sugarman, a local journalist.

The similar concern was raised by member of Yogyakarta mayoralty's Election Supervisory Committee (Panwaslu) Agus Triyatno.

He complained that many political parties had yet to inform Yogyakarta General Election Commission (KPU) on their campaign schedule, so that it also posed a problem to Panwaslu. -- JP