Regional Unity Party

Regional Unity Party Partai Persatuan Daerah
Chairman	Oesman Sapta
Secretary-General	Adhie M Massardi
Founded	18 November 2002
Headquarters	Jakarta
Ideology	Pancasila
Ballot number	12
DPR Seats	0
Website
partaipersatuandaerah.com
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The 'Regional Unity Party (Indonesian: Partai Persatuan Daerah) is a political party in Indonesia. The party was founded as a result of the reforms to the People's Consultative Assembly, Indonesia's supreme law-making body which used to consist of the elected People's Representative Council plus members appointed from the regions and functional groups. When these unelected members were removed in 1999 after the first democratic elections following the fall of Suharto, several regional representatives' led by Oesman Sapta, tried to reestablish the Regional Representatives Faction. The members of this faction took the view that the elected Regional Representatives Council, which replaced the unelected members of the People's Consultative Assembly, would not be effective as it was too small. They therefore decided to establish a political party to represent the interests of the regions.

In the 2004 legislative elections, the party won 0.6% of the popular vote and no seats in the People's Representative Council. It contested the 2009 elections, but won only 0.53 percent of the vote, less than the 2.5 percent electoral threshold, and once again was awarded no seats in the People's Representative Council.^{[1][2] [3][4]}

The party supports free education and healthcare and wants to see corruption eradicated, particularly in Papua, Kalimantan and Sulawesi.^[5]

Regional strength

In the legislative election held on 9 April 2009, support for the PPD was higher than the party's national average in the following provinces:

Aceh 0.9%

North Sumatra 0.5%

West Sumatra 0.7%

Bengkulu 1.0%

Riau 0.6%

Banten 0.9%

West Kalimantan 3.4%

Central Kalimantan 0.9%

South Kalimantan 0.5%

East Kalimantan 1.1%

West Nusa Tenggara 1.1%

East Nusa Tenggara 1.1%

West Sulawesi 1.5%

North Sulawesi 1.0%

South Sulawesi 0.8%

South East Sulawesi 1.1%

Maluku 0.6%

North Maluku 5.7%

West Papua 0.6%

Papua 0.7%

References

1. Profil Partai Politik (Profile of Political Parties), Kompas newspaper 14 July 2008 pp. 431-434
2. Partai-Partai Politik Indonesia: Ideologi dan Program 2004-2009 (Indonesian Political Parties: Ideologies and Programs 2004-2009 Kompas (1999) ISBN 979-709-121-X pp164-166
3. Indonesian General Election Commission website Official Election Results
4. The Jakarta Post 10 May 2009 Democratic Party controls 26% of parliamentary seats
5. Tempo magazine No. 0931/March 31-April 06, 2009, p.33