Democratic Party of Struggle of Indonesia

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Partai Demokrasi Indonesia Perjuangan
Democratic Party of Struggle of Indonesia
Party leader Megawati Sukarnoputri
Secretary General Hasto Kristiyanto
founding 1998
Headquarters Jakarta
Alignment Pancasila ( liberal , secular , social democratic , populist )
Parliament seats
109/560
International connections Progressive Alliance ,
Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats
Website pdiperjuangan.or.id

The Democratic Party of Struggle of Indonesia ( Indonesian Partai Demokrasi Indonesia Perjuangan , PDI-P ; also translated as 'Democratic Party of Indonesia - Struggle' or 'Militant Democratic Party of Indonesia') is a political party in Indonesia .

Its political orientation is based on the Indonesian state ideology Pancasila , i.e. the five principles of the Indonesian constitution. It is a predominantly secular party that is also characterized by social democratic and nationalist elements. Nevertheless, she is a member of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats, a regional organization of the Liberal International .

The voters of the PDI-P are largely secular Javanese who define themselves less through their religion than through their Javanese identity. The PDI-P is also voted more often than the average by members of religious minorities such as the Hindus in Bali and Christians.

The PDI-P appeared in the 1999 elections with a populist strategy and presented itself as a representative of the poor and “common people”.

history

The Democratic Party of Struggle of Indonesia emerged in 1996 from a split in the Democratic Party of Indonesia (PDI), the former ruling party of the first President Sukarno . The PDI had pushed Sukarno's daughter and later President Megawati Sukarnoputri out of the party, but she managed to bring a large number of PDI members into the new party. Megawati is still the chairman of the PDI-P.

In the 1999 parliamentary election, the first after the overthrow of Suharto's “ New Order ” regime and the beginning of the Reformasi phase, the party immediately became the strongest force with 33.7% of the vote and 153 of the 500 seats. However, since it did not have an absolute majority, Parliament did not elect Megawati, but Abdurrahman Wahid from the National Awakening Party , who had a coalition of different parties behind him, as president. In order to end the unrest caused by Megawati supporters, Wahid campaigned for Megawati to be elected Vice President. After Parliament removed Wahid in 2001, Megawati succeeded him in the presidency.

In the 2004 parliamentary elections, the PDI-P received only 18.5% of the vote and 109 of 550 seats. The PDI-P also suffered a defeat in the presidential election. Megawati lost in the second ballot with 39% of the votes against their challenger Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono from the Democratic Party and had to give up the presidency. Despite the defeats, Megawati was elected chairwoman until 2010 at a party conference in March 2005.

In the 2009 parliamentary elections, the proportion of votes fell further to 14.0% and the proportion of seats to 95 of the now 560 seats. In the presidential election, Megawati got 26.8% in the first and only ballot. Since the incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono received a clear absolute majority, there was no runoff election. In October 2012 the political career changer Joko Widodo ("Jokowi") was elected governor of the capital Jakarta for the PDI-P . He quickly gained notoriety and popularity nationwide. From the parliamentary elections in April 2014, the PDI-P emerged as the strongest force again with a share of 19% of the vote. Jokowi won the presidential election in July and became Indonesia's new president, but he cannot count on a stable majority in parliament.

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Individual evidence

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