PPP displays 1-km-long banner

SURAKARTA: The United Development Party (PPP) has spent Rp 8 million (US$3,300) making a one-kilometer-long banner to connect the city with the Kartosuro western suburb.

The one-meter-wide banner was more effective at attracting public attention than politicians' speeches and rhetoric on the same old issues, party activists said yesterday.

"With this poster, we mean to show our love for the PPP, not show off our wealth or something," Surakarta PPP executive Sunardi told The Jakarta Post.

Fanatical local PPP supporters had made the banner by themselves, he said. (har/pan)