A crowd had gathered on Saturday as the helicopter carrying presidential hopeful Prabowo Subianto started its descent towards Ciamis, a regency in West Java province.
Hundreds of supporters, including students, some clad in brown boy scout uniforms, reached out to touch the candidate’s hands when they saw him, while chanting in unison , “Prabowo, Prabowo!” He said on Saturday that he expects no less than 90 per cent of voters in the area to support him, which is in line with the support he attracts in other parts of West Java.
During the rally, which kicked off at around 10.30am on Saturday, Mr Prabowo promised, if elected, to cut electricity costs within his first 100 days in office, and to lift the wages of civil servants and build factories for made-in-Indonesia cars to create jobs in the longer term. “I swear to you that I will not seek advantages of my own or my family from this post. My aspiration is to establish an anti-corruption government, a government without corrupt officials,” Mr Prabowo said.
On the return flight to Jakarta from West Java, Mr Prabowo told The Straits Times that one way to eradicate corruption was for the central government to have a tighter rein on the state budget and to raise the salaries of high-profile officials, such as ministers and judges.
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