From the Streets to Parliament

After two decades in the world of labor and human rights activism, including a failed attempt to set up a labor party, Surya Tjandra is currently running for a legislative seat through the Indonesian Solidarity Party. His campaigns focus on constituency funding and money politics.

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March 12, 2019

Surya Tjandra

Six women between the ages of 20 and 50 were intently listening to Surya Tjandra’s short speech on Thursday last week at a house in Plalar hamlet in the Sukoanyar village in East Java’s Malang regency. The Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) politician explained how the so-called aspiration funding—state funding for the regions channeled through parliament members—of between two and three billion rupiah could

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