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Prosperous Peace Party

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Chairman
  
Denny Tewu (Acting)

Founded
  
1 October 2001

Established
  
1 October 2001

Merged into
  
People's Conscience Party

General Secretary
  
Sahat Sinaga (Acting)

Dissolved
  
10 March 2013

Headquarters
  
Jakarta, Indonesia

Ideology
  
Pancasila Christian democracy

The Prosperous Peace Party (Indonesian: Partai Damai Sejahtera) was a Christian-democratic political party in Indonesia. It portrayed itself as the reincarnation of Parkindo, the Indonesian Christian Party, which contested the 1955 and 1971 elections. Although it was initially founded by Christians, the party was open to all religions, and 21 of its candidates in the 2009 legislative election were Muslim.

In the 2004 Indonesian legislative election, the party won 2.1% of the popular vote and 12 out of 550 seats, but in the 2009 legislative election, the party won 1.5 percent of the votes, less than the required 2.5 percent electoral threshold, meaning it lost all its seats in the People's Representative Council.

The party agreed to merge along with 9 other parties into Hanura on 10 March 2013 after failing to be certified to contest in the 2014 legislative election by the Electoral Commission.

Regional strength

In the legislative election held on 9 April 2009, support for the PDS was higher than its national average in the following provinces:

  • North Sumatra 4.6%
  • Riau 2.2%
  • Riau Islands 2.1%
  • Jakarta 3.4%
  • East Kalimantan 3.4%
  • Central Kalimantan 2.0%
  • West Kalimantan 2.8%
  • East Nusa Tenggara 4.2%
  • North Sulawesi 6.5%
  • Central Sulawesi 4.3%
  • South Sulawesi 2.1%
  • Maluku 2.0%
  • North Maluku 4.9%
  • West Papua 5.2%
  • Papua 6.5%
  • References

    Prosperous Peace Party Wikipedia