Parties try new ways to attract voters

Parties try new ways to attract voters

SEMARANG: As the final days of campaigning draw near, political
parties in Semarang held a variety of different activities to woo
voters on Saturday.

The Freedom Bull National Party (PNBK) held a mass prayer in
the suburb of Gemah in order to ask God for safety and victory in
the upcoming election.

Meanwhile, the National Mandate Party (PAN) held an indoor
meeting -- to announce details of more campaigning. PAN's
Semarang branch leader Ghozy Achmad Dahlan, said the party would
pull out the stops on April 1, the last day public campaigning is
allowed before the general elections.

On that day, the PAN's Semarang branch would host party leader
Amien Rais in a rally held at the Bangetayu field in Genuk.

Meanwhile, officials from the Indonesian Justice and Unity
Party (PKPI) helped fumigation efforts to eradicate aedes aegepty
mosquitoes, the carriers of dengue fever, in the Gadjah Mungkur
area here.

"We are doing our part to prevent further dengue outbreaks in
the city," said Onnie Azis Tiono, the head of the PKPI's Semarang
branch. -- JP