ITB Alumni Support Prabowo-Hatta

Jakarta (Antara) - A number of alumni of the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) have declared their support for presidential and vice presidential candidates Prabowo Subianto and Hatta Rajasa, a spokesman said. "We fully support the candidacy of Hatta Rajasa as Indonesia' vice president for the 2014-2019 period, and the Prabowo-Hatta duo," Amir Sambodo, an initiator of a gathering event called "Love Brother Hatta" which was participated in by thousands of ITB alumni here on Sunday. Hatta Rajasa, an ITB alumnus, has the capability to develop Indonesia's Science-and-technology-based industry to improve the people's welfare, Sambodo said. According to him, Hatta Rajasa has over 1,000 ideas and is very experienced. His previous positions included legislator, research and technology minister, transportation minister, minister/state secretary, and coordinating minister for economic affairs. The Master Plan for the Acceleration of Indonesian Economic Development (MP3EI) was outlined by Rajasa, and it should be continued, he added. In the gathering, the ITB alumni threw their support behind the Prabowo-Hatta pair, he said. "ITB's alumni will give moral support and ideas to the Prabowo-Hatta pair," he stated. The duo offered comprehensive pro-people economic and socio-cultural concepts, he added. "They are the only pair who are courageous enough to promise Indonesia's economic growth rate at over nine percent from 2014 to 2019," he said. (*)