PNBI bosses hard to please

PURWOREJO, Central Java: Local Indonesian Nation's Nationalist Party (PNBI) leaders' bid to improve the dignity of marginalized people has failed to impress the bosses in Jakarta.

The party's central executive board read them the riot act because they proposed a paper boy, a chicken soup seller, a goat trader and two farm laborers as legislative candidates.

The big bosses in Jakarta consider the local leaders' unusual move "frivolous" and they question the candidates' capabilities.

Suprapto Efendi, secretary to the Purworejo chapter of PNBI, is not deterred. "We will go ahead with our legislative candidacy," he said.

Efendi argued that the minimum formal education required for a legislative candidate was junior high school, and his candidates were three high school graduates and one college graduate.

So what is with the central executive board? (har)