PKP eyes 10 percent of votes

MAKASSAR, South Sulawesi: The Nationhood and Unity Party (PKP) is setting its sights on winning 10 percent of the vote in the 2004 general election, chairman Edi Sudrajat said here on Saturday.

"We haven't set too high a target. With such an outcome the party would remain solid; that's the most important thing," Edi, a former defense minister, said at Hasanuddin Airport on a stopover from Maluku to Jakarta.

Edi visited Maluku to introduce the party to people in a province that was swept by sectarian conflict between 1999 and 2002. Party chief patron Try Sutrisno, a former vice president, accompanied Edi during the trip.

Try insisted the party would not aim for the presidency in 2004, but a strong and healthy party instead, whose members were loyal to the Unitary Republic of Indonesia and the Constitution. --Antara