Prosperous Peace Party

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Prosperous Peace Party Partai Damai Sejahtera
Chair	Ruyandi Hutasoit
Secretary General	Ferry B Regar
Founded	1 October 2001
Headquarters	Jakarta
DPR Seats	12 (2%)
Ideology	Pancasila
Ballot number	25
Presidential candidate	Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Website	partaidamaisejahtera.com/

The Prosperous Peace Party (Indonesian: Partai Damai Sejahtera) is a Christian-democratic political party in Indonesia. It portrays 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 is now open to all religions, and 21 of its candidates in the 2009 legislative election are Muslim.^[1]

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 2.5 percent electoral threshold, meaning it lost all its seats in the People's Representative Council.^[2][3]

[edit] 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%

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