Comment: Golkar overtakes Dems in poll

June 13, p1

For the first time since the 2009 general elections, the Democratic Party has fallen to second place in a nationwide popularity survey, mainly due to graft allegations surrounding former party treasurer Mohammad Nazaruddin.

In the survey conducted by the Indonesian Survey Circle (LSI), only 15.5 percent of respondents expressed support for the Democratic Party, a 5 percent drop from the 20.5 percent of votes the party garnered in the 2009 elections.

In an earlier survey by the Indonesian Survey Institute, 18.9 percent of respondents chose the Democratic Party.

Your comments:

I cannot believe it. It is impossible.

Iwan Suka
Bogor, West Java

I see they are blaming the fall from 20 percent to 15 percent on the Nazaruddin scandal. But things could be much worse, when given the choice between Golkar, PDI-P, Democratic Party, Gerindra and Hanura it is more of a question of who you dislike the least.

If Indonesia actually had a secular party run by decent people whose interest was in making the lives  of the people of Indonesia better rather than lining their own  pockets all these parties would be getting single digits.

K Highlander
Jakarta