Patriot Party
Partai Patriot
ChairmanYapto Soerjosoemarno (Chairman)
Secretary-GeneralNugroho Sulistyanto
Founded1 June 2001
as Pancasila Patriot Party
HeadquartersJakarta
IdeologyPancasila
Anti-communism[1][2][3][4]
Ultranationalism[5][6]
Political positionFar-right[7][8]
Ballot number30
DPR seats0
Website
-

The Patriot Party (Indonesian: Partai Patriot) was a political party in Indonesia. It was established as the Pancasila Patriot's Party as a result of a deliberations at the sixth national conference of the Pancasila Youth (Indonesian: Pemuda Pancasila) organization in 1996. At the time, the organization's political goals were channeled by Golkar, but in its conference the year after the 1998 Fall of Suharto, Pancasila Youth withdrew from Golkar. The conference also decided the time was right to establish a political party, and it was declared on 1 June 2001, the anniversary of Sukarno's Pancasila speech. The party was officially and legally established two years later.[9] Thus the Patriot Party was described as the political wing of the Pancasila Youth.[10]

In the 2004 Indonesian legislative election, the party only won 0.9% of the popular vote and no seats. The party therefore had to change its name and undergo the ratification process by the General Elections Commission name to allow it to contest the 2009 elections. In the 2009 elections, the party only won 0.5 percent of the vote, less than the 2.5 percent electoral threshold, meaning it was awarded no seats in the People's Representative Council.[11][12][13]

Following its poor result in the 2009 vote, the party joined nine other smaller parties to form the National Unity Party (Indonesian: Partai Persatuan Nasional),[14] another short-lived party.

References

  1. ^ Inside Indonesia, ed. (1999). Inside Indonesia, Issues 57-68. Inside Indonesia, Indonesia Resources and Information Programme. p. 19.
  2. ^ Elizabeth Rechniewski, ed. (2018). Seeking Meaning, Seeking Justice in a Post-Cold War World. Brill. p. 138. ISBN 9789004361676.
  3. ^ Lyn Parker, Pam Nilan, ed. (2013). Adolescents in Contemporary Indonesia. Taylor & Francis. p. Content. ISBN 9781134072385.
  4. ^ Benedict R. O'G. Anderson, ed. (2018). Violence and the State in Suharto's Indonesia. Cornell University Press. p. 133. ISBN 9781501719042.
  5. ^ Ulla Fionna, ed. (2015). Watching the Indonesian Elections 2014. ISEAS Publishing. p. 106. ISBN 9789814620833. Prabowo has accepted support from and declared his willingness to work with such organizations as the (notorious) radical Islamic group Front Pembela Islam (Defenders of Islam Front) and the ultra-nationalist Pemuda Pancasila
  6. ^ "Indonesia film on mass killings stirs debate". AlJazeera. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  7. ^ Jason Crouthamel, Julia Barbara Köhne & Peter Leese 2021, pp. 317.
  8. ^ Geoffrey B. Robinson, ed. (2019). The Killing Season. Princeton University Press. p. 301. ISBN 9780691196497.
  9. ^ Partai-Partai Politik Indonesia: Ideologi dan Program 2004-2009 (Indonesian Political Parties: Ideologies and Programs 2004-2009 Kompas (1999) ISBN 979-709-121-X pp. 406-408
  10. ^ "Jakarta prominent mass organization and ethnic groups".
  11. ^ Profil Partai Politik (Profile of Political Parties), Kompas newspaper 14 July 2008 pp. 38-39
  12. ^ Indonesian General Election Commission website[permanent dead link] Official Election Results
  13. ^ The Jakarta Post 10 May 2009 Archived May 13, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Democratic Party controls 26% of parliamentary seats
  14. ^ Ajeng Ritzki Pitakasari (14 April 2011). "Tersingkir di Pemilu 2009, Sepuluh Partai Dirikan Partai Persatuan Nasional (Sidelined from the election, 10 parties establish the National Unity Party)". Tempo.co (in Indonesian). Republika online. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
Categories