Indonesian Democratic Party of Devotion

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Indonesian Democratic Party of Devotion
Partai Kasih Demokrasi Indonesia
Chairman Roy Rening
Secretary-GeneralRandom Gultom
Founded22 August 1998
Headquarters Jakarta
Ideology Pancasila
Ballot number 32
DPR seats0
Website
pkdindonesia.com

The Indonesian Democratic Party of Devotion (Indonesian : Partai Kasih Demokrasi Indonesia) was a political party in Indonesia. It was one of two Christian parties contesting the 2009 elections. [1]

The party was originally established in 1998 as the Catholic Democratic Party. In the 1999 legislative election, the party won one seat in the legislature. For the 2004 election, it had to change its name in order to meet the requirements to contest the vote, but the party eventually failed the verification process. It then joined together with other parties and changed its name to the Indonesian Democratic Party of Devotion. The party targeted the 14-15 million voters in Christian regions of Indonesia in the 2009 legislative election, hoping to gain 30 percent of the votes in those areas. However, the party won only 0.3 percent of the national vote, less than the 2.5 percent electoral threshold, meaning it was awarded no seats in the People's Representative Council. [2] [3] [4] Following its poor result in the 2009 vote, the party joined nine other smaller parties to form the National Unity Party (Indonesian : Partai Persatuan Nasional). [5]

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References

  1. Profil Partai Politik (Profile of Political Parties), Kompas newspaper 14 July 2008 pp. 38-39
  2. Tempo magazine No. 0931/March 31-April 06, 2009, pp 44-45
  3. Indonesian General Election Commission website [ permanent dead link ] Official Election Results
  4. The Jakarta Post 10 May 2009 Archived 13 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine Democratic Party controls 26% of parliamentary seats
  5. Ajeng Ritzki Pitakasari (14 April 2011). "Tersingkir di Pemilu 2009, Sepuluh Partai Dirikan Partai Persatuan Nasional (Sidelined from the election, 10 parties establish the National Unity Party)". Tempo.co (in Indonesian). Republika online . Retrieved 26 February 2018.