![]() The polls will determine which parties can field candidates for presidential elections on July 8. Southeast Asia’s biggest democracy holds parliamentary elections on April 9. ![]() “These seeds are a contribution from PDI-P to Indonesia’s farmers,” said Pramono Anung, PDI-P’s secretary general, according to the party website, while he was campaigning last week in Blitar, East Java. MSP has a yield of up to 12 tons per hectare, according to PDIP’s website, compared with 5 tons for normal varieties. Megawati Sukarnoputri’s PDI-P party has launched its own variety of “MSP” rice: that stands for “Mari Sejahterakan Petani” or “let’s improve the welfare of farmers,” but it’s no coincidence those are the initials of the former president. Two out of every five people in the 108 million-strong labor force works in the agricultural sector. ![]() Rice isn’t just an important part of Indonesian cuisine - Indonesians say you haven’t eaten unless your meal includes rice - it’s also embedded in the cultural consciousness in a land of 226 million people. A worker checks ballot papers before distributing them to the districts in Surabaya of Indonesia's East Java province April 6, 2009.
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