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Female legislator candidates hits quota, says activist
An activist praised the fact that there are 2,434 female legislator candidates listed in the temporary legislator list, which is equal to 37
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n activist praised the fact that there are 2,434female legislator candidates listed in the temporary legislator list,which is equal to 37.01 percent of 6,576 people listed.
'It means that these parties have kept theirpromise to fill 30 percent of their legislator quota with femalecandidates,' he said on Sunday as quoted by kompas.com.
The NasDem Party had the biggest number of female candidateswith 223 out of 560 people.
However, the names of some of the candidates occurred on several parties' lists, this could be a potential problem and would need to be addressed.
The 30 percent quota was requested by feminists
and activists to address the lack of attention toward women and children's
issues.
The 12 political parties that will compete on next
year General Elections are the Golkar Party, the Indonesian Democratic
Party of Struggle (PDI-P), the Justice and Prosperous Party (PKS), the
Moon and Crescent Party (PBB), the National Mandate Party
(PAN), the National Awakening Party (PKB), the Democratic Party, the
People Conscience Party (Hanura), the Great Indonesia Movement Party
(Gerindra), the United Development Party (PPP) and the Indonesian
Justice and Unity Party (PKPI). (dic)
