Prosperous Peace Party

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Prosperous Peace Party
Partai Damai Sejahtera
ChairmanDenny Tewu (Acting)
General SecretarySahat Sinaga (Acting)
Founded1 October 2001
Dissolved10 March 2013
Merged intoHanura
HeadquartersJakarta
IdeologyPancasila
ReligionChristianity

The Prosperous Peace Party (Indonesian: Partai Damai Sejahtera) was a Christian-democratic political party in Indonesia. It portrayed 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 was open to all religions, and 21 of its candidates in the 2009 legislative election were 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 required 2.5 percent electoral threshold, meaning it lost all its seats in the People's Representative Council.[2][3]

The party agreed to merge along with 9 other parties into Hanura on 10 March 2013 after failing to be certified to contest in the 2014 legislative election by the Electoral Commission.[4]

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  1. ^ Tempo magazine No. 0931/31 March-06 April 2009, p.45
  2. ^ Indonesian General Election Commission website "Bab V: Hasil Pemilu" (Section V: Election Results) p45
  3. ^ The Jakarta Post 10 May 2009 Democratic Party controls 26% of parliamentary seats
  4. ^ Dian Maharani (14 April 2011). "Sepuluh Parpol Tak Lolos Verifikasi Gabung ke Hanura (Ten Paties that Failed the Verification Join Hanura)" (in Indonesian). Kompas. Retrieved 18 March 2018.

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