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View all search resultsGerindra-nominated mayor to demonstrate against indirect-election proposal
Bandung Mayor Ridwan Kamil invited on Thursday all mayors and regents across the archipelago to demonstrate their rejection of the proposal to remove direct elections for regional heads
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andung Mayor Ridwan Kamil invited on Thursday all mayors and regents across the archipelago to demonstrate their rejection of the proposal to remove direct elections for regional heads.
Kamil, who won Bandung's mayoral election in 2013 after a nomination from the Gerindra Party, said that he disagreed with the proposal of the Red-and-White Coalition, which is led by Gerindra chairman and losing presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto, to revoke the rights of people to vote for their regional heads through direct elections.
'The 1945 Constitution stated that the country's sovereignty is in the people's hands. We have decided that we will take to the streets, to the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle, in a bid to express that all mayors and regents reject indirect elections,' he said during a meeting of the Indonesian Regency Administrations Association (Apkasi), as quoted by kontan.co.id.
He said that the association had prepared materials needed for the demonstration, such as a banner bearing the words 'We reject indirect elections'.
Kamil added that he rejected indirect elections because they would mean regional heads did not have to make breakthroughs to establish their territories.
On Wednesday, Jakarta Deputy Governor Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama ' who was head of Gerindra's executive board (DPP) overseeing politics ' resigned from Gerindra, which also nominated him for the city's gubernatorial race in 2012.
Like Kamil, Ahok said he disagreed with the move of the Red-and-White Coalition to eliminate direct elections for regional heads. (alz)
