T-shirts and Fertilizer Sacks

A lack of monetary backing has not hindered DPD candidates from coming up with ways to seek support.

March 16, 2004

A CAMPAIGN without party T-shirts is like eating without crispy prawn crackers. The latter are not really important, but do indeed make the meal crispy. This, at least, is what Petrus Sarijo, 43, feels; the community of farmers in Pemalang, Central Java asked this fellow farmer of theirs to become a candidate for the local legislature.

Sarijo often feels disquiet when his supporters ask him about his campaign handouts in his efforts to l

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