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NGOs Community Press Release, 19 June 2009
NGOs Community Point of View for the Third Round of Presidential Candidates Debate 2009

Candidate’s debate last night has indicated the shallow point of view from the candidates in seeing democracy, NKRI (Negara Kesatuan Republik Indonesia/United State of Indonesia Republic), and Regional autonomy, both in recognizing the problem and responds it. The three candidates were given meaning to NKRI as the fighting space restrictions, not the nation living space. Meanwhile, the regional autonomy is understood as a local administrative affair, not as a socio-ecologic reality of Indonesia as an archipelagic country, as well as the largest maritime countries in the world.

NGOs Community Point of View for the Second Round of Presidential Candidates Debate 2009

Last night (25/06), the NGO community consists of 43 NGOs in Indonesia have witnessed the presidential candidate’s debate round 2 organized by the General Elections Commission (KPU)  bringingthe theme of poverty reduction and unemployment. As suspected before, the candidate debate last night has a poor understanding on the problems of environmental and natural resources, Agrarian conflict, also condemnation in urban area and its relation with the effort of poverty reduction and unemployment.