Some 250,000 Prabowo Supporters Throng Bung Karno Stadium

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Some 250 thousand supporters thronged the Bung Karno Sports Stadium to follow a grand campaign held by the Prabowo-Hatta Rajasa pair on Sunday.

In his oration, vice presidential candidate Hatta Rajasa called on his supporters to conduct well-mannered campaigns.

"We should not be provoked by negative rumors and black campaigns. We should avoid these kinds of campaigns because they are not in accordance with the Indonesian peoples personality," Hatta Rajasa who is the running mate of presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto, said.

He said that with hard work, God willing, the Prabowo-Hatta duo would win the upcoming presidential elections on July 9, 2014.

Hatta also expressed gratitude to the people of Indonesia for their participation in making the 2014 presidential election a success.

Hundreds of thousands of supporters of the Prabowo-Hatta presidential and vice presidential ticket thronged the Bung Karno Sport Stadium for taking part in the grand rally on Sunday.

They came from Jakarta and its buffer towns of Depok, Bogor, Tangerang and Bekasi.

Music groups such as Raja and Soneta enlivened the event. Noted musician Ahmad Dhani and Dangdut music King Rhoma Irama also entertained supporters.

The hilarious rally was also marked with a marching band by the Gerindra (Greater Indonesia Movement Party) youths.

In the meantime, presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto said on the occasion that there were people who were afraid if he won the upcoming presidential elections.

"There are people who are afraid if Prabowo wins the elections. They are afraid of a clean government who will defend its own people," Prabowo said when campaigning in front of about 250 thousand supporters at the Bung Karno Sports Stadium here on Sunday.

He said that they were afraid of the government who would defend its own people. "They like a puppet government. Now I want to ask you, are ready to be led by a puppet government?," Prabowo asked his supporters grouped in political alliance baking his nomination, mass organizations and laborers.

Prabowo said that there would be a competition in the elections to decide whether Indonesia would be led by a clean government, not a government controlled by others.

"We hope the next government would be the one which serves the interest of the Indonesian people, not a government which could be bribed, neither a government which would sell state assets," he said.

He said that some considered that Indonesian people were ignorant and could be cheated. "They said that village heads, subditrict heads, district heads, governors, ministers and generals are all could be bribed," he said.

This thing is a common responsibility. "You who humiliate and buy the Indonesian people, you who place a puppet (government) in Indonesia and you who want Indonesian people to remain poor. This time you cant," Prabowo stressed.

"We want the Indonesian people to stand with honor, we want to become a people who endure a good living and adequate income per month. We want Indonesian families to live with smiles and prosperity," he said.

There are two presidential and vice presidential candidate pairs who to contest in the upcoming presidential election.

The two pairs are the Prabowo-Hatta pair and the Joko Widodo - Jusuf Kalla duo.