PDI reveals gender side

PDI reveals gender side

JAKARTA (JP): The Indonesian Democratic Party is dying to see
the country have its first female president, or at least a woman
provincial governor.

The minority party reckoned yesterday that Indonesia was
entering the age of the service industry where smiles and
hospitality were unnegotiable.

"So the key to success is to give a greater role to women in
the industry," PDI legislator Soedaryanto told an Assembly
plenary meeting.

"Hospitality and smiles are women's natural job while men
still need one to two decades to learn how to smile," said the
spokesman of the party whose woman politician Fatimah Achmad is a
deputy House speaker.

PDI said men were more suited to the manufacturing industry
where they become stern, unsmiling foremen whose main job is to
make laborers toil.

"They (men) will tell laborers to plug their ears to
concentrate and to shut their mouths so they won't demand too
much," he said. (pan)