Text your say: Independent gubernatorial candidates

Your comments on the prospects of several pairs of independent candidates in the city gubernatorial election scheduled in July:

Independent candidates for the Jakarta gubernatorial elections have to face huge handicaps in their effort to get elected.

First of all they have to collect support from 4 percent of the population to be registered as candidates. Then they have to do fundraising, which could be done by organizing events attended by financially strong friends and sympathizers.

And last but not least they have to campaign. Elections are direct elections, so candidates have to talk to gatherings all over Jakarta attended by grassroot people.

This is not an easy task. Local organizers are needed and attendants are expecting some talk to gatherings all over Jakarta attended by grassroot people. This is not an easy task. Local organizers are needed and attendants expect transportation and pocket-money. I wish the Indie hopefuls success.
Soebagjo Soetadji
Jakarta

We still need Fauzi Bowo, not orators or promises for Jakarta. Rome was build not in a day.
E. Nurdin
Jakarta

They have a smaller chance of winning the election.

Anyone who wins the election actually is supported by political parties.
Erika Leony

There are too many beggars of all sorts; especially children of all ages. This indicates that the city government does not seriously care for them.

People still spit and throw thrash out of car windows which eventually clogs the city drainage system and creates inundation and subsequent expensive traffic jams to the detriment of all. Pedestrian lanes are not only sacrificed for those who have automobiles but also all sorts of sidewalk vendors, to that point where pedestrians have to wait for the traffic to ease before they can proceed through the car lane.

The city monorail program has been allowed to stall; which indicates that the city government is incapable of managing whatever problem it faces; for the sake of the tax-payers! Likewise for many years the Kalimalang skyway has been abandoned; creating daily traffic jams in Kalimalang.

All these and more can only be solved by an independent fearless governor such as the late Ali Sadikin.
Moeljono Adikoesoemo
Jakarta

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