Malang – Of 1,000 respondents, 92.4% answered that they would abstain from voting [golput, golongan putih/white movement] in the coming general election in a pole conducted in Malang since be beginning of January.

The survey was given to 32 student senates and 30 youth organisations. Of the 1,000, 874 were returned with 92.4% wishing to golput, 5.4% would vote and the remainder, 2.2% not answering. The organisers of the survey said that they particularly wanted to know the views of young people particularly those who were critical.

The organiser of the survey, Fauzan Alfaz SH said wanted to provide input to the three political parties from the younger generation. "They are the critical generation who will later become leaders of the nation. If they are apathetic about the general elections, what do we want our nation to become" he asked.

[Abridged translation from Suara Merdeka - JB]