Dr. Bomer Pasaribu at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

On April 27th, 2009. See this statement in context.

April 27th, 2009 / 4:55 p.m.

Head of Delegation, House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia

Yes, it's the Muslim party. And they received 8% of the popular vote in the last election. In the election of 2004, they received only 7%.

PBR is a very nice name for a party, and there is the Reform Star Party. But I am very sad to tell you that in this election—because we have a parliamentary threshold of 2.5% of the popular vote—I am afraid that maybe that party has not passed the parliamentary threshold.

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