Palangka Raya turns blue

PALANGKA RAYA, Central Kalimantan: The National Mandate Party (PAN) sealed its election campaign here on a high note, with a crowd of some 10,000 attending its rally at Cilik Riwut soccer field in the outskirt of this provincial capital.

Local PAN officials, who did not want the party supporters to think hard this time around, allowed the crowd to dance amid songs performed by dangdut singer Yulia Citra.

Following the mass dance, the party supporters, clad in blue, went out of the pitch in convoys. The town was blanketed with blue T-shirts and flags when the party supporters came.

Speaking in the rally were local campaigners Rinco Norkim and Hang Ali Saputra, Antara reported.