PPP nominates female politician in E. Java

Source : The Jakarta Post

The United Development Party (PPP) will nominate Khofifah Indar Parawansa as the only female candidate in the governor's race in the province in July.

PPP chairman Suryadharma Ali said his party nominated her because of her political experience as minister for the empowerment of women in 1999 and for her integrity.

"She is a female politician from the largest Muslim organization, Nahdlatul Ulama, and has the experience of being a minister in the past," he said here Thursday.

Suryadharma, also minister of cooperatives and small and medium enterprises, said Khofifah was expected to do well with female voters in the province because she would be the only female candidate contesting the race.

Of 19 million eligible voters in the province, 40 percent are members of the NU and around 60 percent are women.