Patriot Party (Indonesia)

Infobox Indonesian Political Party
name_english = Patriot Party
name_native = Partai Patriot

chair = Yapto S Soemarno (Chairman)
SecGen = Sulistyanto
foundation = 2003
as Pancasila Patriot's Party
headquarters = Jakarta
DPRseats = 0
ideology = Pancasila
website = -
BallNo = 30The Patriot Party ("Indonesian: Partai Patriot") is a political party in Indonesia. It was established as the Pancasila Patriot's Party as a result of a deliberations at the sixth national conference of the Pancasila Youth (Indonesian: "Pemuda Pancasila") organization in 1996. At the time, the organization's political goals were channeled by Golkar, but in its conference the year after the 1998 fall of Suharto, 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) ISBN 979-709-121-X pp. 406-408] .

At the last legislative elections, 5 April 2004, the party 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 the 2009 elections. It is now known by its present name [ "Profil Partai Politik" (Profile of Political Parties), "Kompas" newspaper 14 July 2008 pp. 38-39] .

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