Indonesia party eyes death (penalty) for graft

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Source: Reuters

By Sunanda Creagh

JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesian Islamist party seen as a likely partner in President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's coalition said it wanted energy and mining contracts to be renegotiated and the death penalty imposed in the worst cases of corruption.

The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) has done well in some local elections because of its emphasis on clean governance, but religious minorities in the officially secular but predominantly Muslim country are nervous about the party's Islamist agenda and likely influence on policy-making.

Tifatul Sembiring, chairman of the PKS which won about 8 percent in parliamentary elections last week, said his party may join Yudhoyono's Democrat Party, which won a fifth of the vote, to form a coalition.

That coalition may also include the National Awakening Party (PKB) and the National Mandate Party (PAN), two small Islamic parties, he told Reuters in an interview, as well as the Golkar Party, giving the bloc a majority of seats in parliament.

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[Taverner]

1. Ahhh religion's answer to everything "DEATH"

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2. and this is why i feel a belief structure of any kind is just a bad idea in general.

[Taverner]

3. I feel faith is a bad idea in general

The Scientific Method is an ok belief system

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5. agreed.

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4. Gotta say....

it would turn Washington into a ghost town in a hurry, though.