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Fri, 06/19/2009 - 18:48
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KALLA TO HOLD DIALOGIC CAMPAIGN IN PAPUA

Jayapura, Indonesia, June 19 (ANTARA) - Presidential aspirant Jusuf Kalla is scheduled to hold dialogic campaign at Jayapura sport stadium here on Saturday.

In the campaign Kalla will hold a dialog with local people to obtain first hand information about their complaints and ups and downs as an input for him to do something for the people in Indonesia's easternmost province if he is elected president in the upcoming July 8 presidential election.

Kalla and his running mate Wiranto (JK-Win) ticket's campaign team chairman for Papua, Paskalis Kossy, said here on Friday that the presidential aspirant from Golkar Party would try to have first hand information about the local people's real conditions.

"As a presidential candidate from eastern Indonesia, Jusuf Kalla wants to hear the complaints of his brothers and sisters in the easternmost area of the Unitary State of Indonesian Republic (NKRI)," Paskalis Kossy said.

According to Paskalis, Kalla in the campaign dialog would prove that he was a national leader and a good listener who wanted to listen to the complaints of his people in Papua.

"Indeed, the people of Papua are in desperate need of a good listener who would like to listen to their complaints and the help them get out of their misery," Paskalis said.

Paskalis said earlier in the day that the Papuan indigenous people would inaugurate Jusuf Kalla as a successful national leader for his role in handling communal conflicts in Aceh, Ambon, and Poso.

"One of JK's itineraries during his visit to Papua is to receive a citation as "Papuan indigenous son" as a candidate of the nation's leader and expected to continue playing his role together with the people to overcome disasters in the country if he becomes the president," Paskalis Kossay said.

The Papuan indigenous people paid great attention to a series of disasters in the country in the last five years, such as
earthquakes in Nabire, the tsunami in Aceh, Lapindo mud-floods in East Java, sinking ships, including plane and helicopter crashes, he said.

The Papuans felt necessary to hold such ceremony, hoping that Kalla's theme of "Peace in Aceh and peace in Papua" would come true, he noted.***


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