Patriot Party (Indonesia)

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.[1] Thus the Patriot Party was described as the political wing of the Pancasila Youth.[2]

Patriot Party

Partai Patriot
ChairmanYapto Soerjosoemarno (Chairman)
Secretary-GeneralNugroho Sulistyanto
Founded1 June 2001
as Pancasila Patriot Party
HeadquartersJakarta
IdeologyPancasila
Ballot number30
DPR seats0
Website
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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.[3][4][5]

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),[6] another short-lived party.

References
  1. 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
  2. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/08/28/jakarta-prominent-mass-organization-and-ethnic-groups.html
  3. Profil Partai Politik (Profile of Political Parties), Kompas newspaper 14 July 2008 pp. 38-39
  4. Indonesian General Election Commission website Official Election Results
  5. The Jakarta Post 10 May 2009 Archived May 13, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Democratic Party controls 26% of parliamentary seats
  6. 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.


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