The Patriot Party ( id, Partai Patriot) was a
political party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or p ...
in
Indonesia
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. It was established as the Pancasila Patriot's Party as a result of a deliberations at the sixth national conference of the
Pancasila Youth ( id, Pemuda Pancasila) organization in 1996. At the time, the organization's political goals were channeled by
Golkar
)
, foundation =
, youth = AMPG (Golkar Party Young Force)
, women = KPPG (Golkar Party Women's Corps)
, newspaper = ''Suara Karya'' (1971–2016)
, headquarters = Jakarta
, ideology ...
, but in its conference the year after the 1998
Fall of Suharto
Suharto resigned as President of Indonesia on 21 May 1998 following the collapse of support for his 32-year long presidency. Vice President B. J. Habibie took over the presidency.
Suharto's grip on power weakened following severe economic and ...
, 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.
[''Partai-Partai Politik Indonesia: Ideologi dan Program 2004-2009 (Indonesian Political Parties: Ideologies and Programs 2004-2009'' Kompas (1999) pp. 406-408] Thus the Patriot Party was described as the political wing of the Pancasila Youth.
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.
Following its poor result in the 2009 vote, the party joined nine other smaller parties to form the National Unity Party ( id, Partai Persatuan Nasional),
another short-lived party.
References
Pancasila political parties
Political parties in Indonesia
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