Nasdem offers ten programs in Indonesian election campaign

We will provide subsidy for poor people worth Rp1 million per head of the family..."

Banda Aceh (ANTARA News) - The National Democratic Party (Nasdem), one of 12 national political parties, in its first campaign in Aceh provincial city of Banda Aceh on Sunday offered ten prioritized programs for the people.

"We will provide subsidy for poor people worth Rp1 million per head of the family for five years if Nasdem party wins the 2014 election," the Nasdem secretary general Patrice Rio Capella stated here in its first opened-door campaign in Lampineung field here.

In addition, Nasdem will also provide fertilizers, farming equipments at the lowest possible prices, infrastructures such as ports, irrigation, including roads in Indonesia for five years, he noted.

According to Patrice, Nasdem also promised to raise salaries of civil servants, military and police personnel gradually for five years in effort to give a sense of pride and optimal productivity, free education costs from primary schools to higher learning institutes for five years.

The party, led by its chairman (a press baron) Surya Paloh, will also provide 100 thousand scholarships for senior high school graduates for five years as well as create 10 million new jobs.

Twelve political parties begin the campaigns on Sunday in the upcoming legislative elections on April 9, 2014.

Indonesia will hold legislative elections on April 9 and presidential elections on July 9, 2014. The campaign period for legislative elections is from March 16 to April 5, 2014.

This year, the General Elections Commission (KPU) has decided that 15 political parties in Indonesia are eligible to participate in the elections.

Three of them are local parties for the Aceh electorate, including the Aceh Party (Partai Aceh-PA), the Aceh Peoples Party (Partai Rakyat Aceh-PRA), and the Aceh Sovereignty Party (Partai Daulat Aceh-PDA).

The other 12 parties are the National Democratic Party (Nasdem), the National Awakening Party (PKB), the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), the Indonesian Democratic Party Struggle (PDIP), the Golkar Party (Golkar), and the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra).

Also included in the line-up are the Democratic Party (Demokrat), the National Mandate Party (PAN), the United Development Party (PPP), the Peoples Conscience Party (Hanura), the Crescent and Star Party (PBB), and the Indonesian Justice and Unity Party (PKPI).

(Reporting Syaiful Hakim/Uu.B003)

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