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ept. 15, online

The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) will withdraw its support for Bogor Mayor Diani Budiarto due to his polemical handling of the Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) of Taman Yasmin in Bogor, West Java.

“I am very disappointed with his explanation because it contradicted the Constitution. I and Trimedya [PDI-P politician] will instruct the PDI-P faction in Bogor to pull its support,” the PDI-P’s deputy secretary-general Achmad Basarah said on Thursday as quoted by kompas.com.

The House of Representatives has summoned Budiarto over complaints from the GKI Yasmin congregation following the mayor’s refusal to enact a Supreme Court decree, which demanded that the mayor overturn the ban on the church’s construction.

Budiarto said he was acting on pressure from other community members in Bogor who rejected the establishment of the GKI Yasmin church.

Your comments:

Salute to PDI-P! You did the right thing.

Just make sure to study the candidates’ backgrounds a little bit more before giving your support to politicians to prevent the same thing from happening again
in the future.

Akke Tangka
Jakarta

This is what happens when you elect a rice farmer to be a mayor. The PDI-P is only two years too late.

Rahadi Widodo
Jakarta

It’s been ongoing problems for the church for a while now, and the members of PDI-P have just realized this?

You must wonder about their
sincerity!

Mad
Jakarta

The PDI-P is to be congratulated for its support of the Constitution and Pancasila.

Hopefully, this will carry through to other areas where the Constitution is ignored.

Shame on other parties for not safeguarding the Constitution.

Wjgomm
Denpasar