Megawati gets orangutan backing

SEMARANG: Supporters of Megawati Soekarnoputri's Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) never run out of fresh ideas to draw people's attention to their street rallies.

On Thursday, they paraded two large orangutans on motorcycles around town.

Wearing the party's red t-shirts each emblazoned with the PDI Perjuangan's symbol of a bullhead, the two hairy supporters looked well-spirited, while smiling and waving at enthusiastic onlookers.

S. Didiek, a Semarang resident who owns the primates, said he raised the orangutans for two years and they loved going out on a motorbike.

"I have spent several months training them for this campaign," Didiek said. (har)