Abstinence Denied

PPP religious figures in East Java have made a ruling forbidding Muslims from not voting in the national election. An unnecessary verdict, says the MUI.

May 6, 2003

THE future of the "white party", a term for those who intentionally abstain from national elections, has been constricted. After coming under the threat of legal restrictions under the National Election Law, a new threat has arrived from religious scholars. On Friday and Saturday three weeks ago, a number of scholars from the religious verdict team of the United Development Party (PPP) of East Java issued a verdict that it is religiously unlaw

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