Patriot Party (Indonesia)

Patriot Party
Partai Patriot
Chairman Yapto Soerjosoemarno (Chairman)
Secretary-General Sulistyanto
Founded 1 June 2001
as Pancasila Patriot Party
Headquarters Jakarta
Ideology Pancasila
Ballot number 30
Presidential candidate Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
DPR Seats 0
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The Patriot Party (Indonesian: Partai Patriot) is a political party in Indonesia. It was established as the Pancasila Patriot's Party as a result of a deliberations at the sixth national conference of the Pancasila Youth (Indonesian: Pemuda Pancasila) organization in 1996. At the time, the organization's political goals were channeled by Golkar, but in its conference the year after the 1998 Fall of Suharto, Pancasila Youth withdrew from Golkar. The conference also decided the time was right to establish a political party, and it was declared on 1 June 2001, the anniversary of Sukarno's Pancasila speech. The party was officially and legally established two years later.[1] Thus the Patriot Party is described as the political wing of the Pancasila Youth.[2]

In the 2004 Indonesian legislative election, the party won 0.9% of the popular vote and no seats. The party therefore had to change its name and undergo the ratification process by the General Elections Commission name to allow it to contest the 2009 elections. In the 2009 elections, the party won only 0.5 percent of the vote, less than the 2.5 percent electoral threshold, meaning it was awarded no seats in the People's Representative Council.[3][4][5]

Regional strength

In the legislative election held on 9 April 2009, support for the Patriot Party was higher than the party's national average in the following provinces:

Aceh 1.3%

North Sumatra 0.6%

Bengkulu 0.8%

Riau 0.7%

Riau Islands 0.7%

Yogyakarta 0.6%

East Kalimantan 2.8%

West Nusa Tenggara 1.0%

West Sulawesi 0.9%

Central Sulawesi 1.5%

South Sulawesi 1.1%

South East Sulawesi 1.2%

North Maluku 2.9%

West Papua 10.5%

Papua 4.6%

References

  1. ↑ Partai-Partai Politik Indonesia: Ideologi dan Program 2004-2009 (Indonesian Political Parties: Ideologies and Programs 2004-2009 Kompas (1999) ISBN 979-709-121-X pp. 406-408
  2. ↑ http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/08/28/jakarta-prominent-mass-organization-and-ethnic-groups.html
  3. ↑ Profil Partai Politik (Profile of Political Parties), Kompas newspaper 14 July 2008 pp. 38-39
  4. ↑ Indonesian General Election Commission website Official Election Results
  5. ↑ The Jakarta Post 10 May 2009 Democratic Party controls 26% of parliamentary seats