Great Indonesia Movement Party

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The Great Indonesia Movement Party ( Indonesian Partai Gerakan Indonesia Raya , Gerindra ) is a political party in Indonesia , in 2008 at the initiative of the retired general Prabowo Subianto was founded. She is committed to the state ideology Pancasila , has a strongly nationalist and populist profile and presents herself as a representative of the “common people”. The party claims to have a membership of nearly 15 million, with the party's base in Java , Sumatra , Kalimantan and Sulawesi . The idea for the party name came from the younger brother of the party founder and presidential candidate Prabowo, Hashim Djojohadikusomo, who helped with the Gerinda election campaign.

The chairman of the party founded on February 6, 2008 is Suhardi, the general secretary Ahmad Muzani. In fact, however, it is perceived as Prabowo's party. The party's headquarters are in Jakarta . In the general election in May 2014 Gerindra came third with 11.8% of the vote and won 73 of the 560 seats in the House of Representatives. In the presidential election in July of the same year, the Gerindra candidate Prabowo was defeated by Joko Widodo from the PDI-P with 46.9% of the vote .

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