Citizens have an equal right to lead the country: Kalla
Adianto P. Simamora, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Fri, 07/03/2009 9:29 PM
Presidential hopeful Jusuf Kalla said Friday that all Indonesian citizens had an equal right to lead the country, regardless of their ethnicity or background.
“We have the same right to lead the country and pluralism should be the basis for building the nation,” he told an audience of hundreds at a joint forum with Chinese-Indonesians.
Kalla made the same statement during a meeting with community leaders and Muslim clerics in Depok, West Java, later in the day.
In the televised presidential debate Thursday, Kalla said discrimination against certain races was a threat to the country’s main principal of unity through diversity.
At the meeting with the Chinese-Indonesian community, Kalla also promised to put an end to the imminent energy crisis by 2011 if elected president.
“We will put domestic energy supply ahead of exports,” he said.
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