Puppeteers back Amien

JAKARTA: At least 20 practitioners of wayang golek wooden puppet shows and two comedians from West Java expressed their support for the Amien Rais-Siswono Yudohusodo ticket on Tuesday.

The puppeteers, grouped together in the West Java Wooden Puppet Masters Association, and comedians Aom Koesman and Kang Ibing, met Amien at his official residence on Jl. Widya Chandra, South Jakarta, on Tuesday.

During the meeting, Amien promised them that if he was elected president he would allocate money from the State Budget for the preservation of traditional arts. -JP

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KPUD to destroy unused voter cards

YOGYAKARTA: The Yogyakarta Municipal General Elections Commission (KPUD) will destroy 20,138 unused voter registration cards left over from the April 5 legislative elections in a bid to prevent their possible misuse during the upcoming July 5 presidential election.

Rahmat Muhadjir Nugroho, the head of the information section of the KPUD, said that the voter registration cards were not claimed by the voters who were eligible to receive them for various reasons, including the fact that they were not at home when KPU officials paid a call.

"If these cards are not destroyed, we are afraid that they could be misused by irresponsible persons during the upcoming presidential election," he said. -- JP