Functional Party of Struggle

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Functional Party of Struggle
Partai Karya Perjuangan
Chairman Jackson A Kumaat
Secretary-General Ambo Enre
Founded 7 July 2007
Headquarters Jakarta
Ideology Pancasila
Ballot number 17
Presidential candidate Megawati Sukarnoputri
DPR Seats 0
Website
partaikaryaperjuangan.org/
Politics of Indonesia
Political parties
Elections

The Functional Party of Struggle (Indonesian: Partai Karya Perjuangan, Pakar Pangan) is a political party in Indonesia. It contested the 2009 elections, but received only 0.3 percent of the vote, well below the threshold of 2.5% of the political votes, and was awarded no seats in the People's Representative Council. [1] The party was established by Lt. Gen (ret) Muhammad Yasin and members of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's 2004 election campaign team. Most of its election candidates were retired military officers.[2]

Regional strength

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

North Sumatra 0.4%

West Sumatra 0.3%

Bengkulu 0.4%

Riau 0.5%

South Sumatra 0.5%

Lampung 0.3%

West Kalimantan 0.8%

Central Kalimantan 0.5%

South Kalimantan 0.4%

Bali 0.4%

East Nusa Tenggara 2.1%

Central Sulawesi 0.8%

South Sulawesi 0.5%

South East Sulawesi 0.4%

Maluku 0.6%

North Maluku 0.4%

West Papua 0.7%

Papua 1.2%

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, p.31

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