Money Politics The Biggest Threat in Indonesia General Election
JAKARTA - Chief of General DPP PKB A. Muhaimin Iskandar assess the threat to elections in the future is not golput. This Vice-chairman of the House of Representatives states , money politics became the most dangerous threat to the elections in 2009. That is a result of the Constitutional Court decision that requires prospective members of elected legislative are the most top voted.
According to Muhaimin, members of legislative candidates who have a lot of money will be the most benefit from the decision. '' the biggest threat in the next election is money politics,''Muhaimin said after the end of the year reflection of the DPP PKB in Aston Hotel yesterday (29/12).
PKB, which was initially apply ordinal numbers, add Muhaimin, will implement the Constitutional Court decision. PKB legislative candidates that the majority come from the santri activists not enough material dealing with the many legislative candidates that have much money. The only material they have is the social living.
Therefore, PKB KPU request to make the rules stricter supervision to minimize the money politics that will occur much before the 2009 elections. PKB will conduct internal control to its legislative candidates. ''If there are selected because of money politics, we would recommend not to be constituted,''said the legislative candidates for the House of Representatives constituency Jatim I (Surabaya-Sidoarjo).
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