House threshold meeting ends in deadlock
Dina Indrasafitri, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Tue, 06/07/2011 10:24 PM
A House of Representatives
threshold hearing ended in a deadlock on Tuesday, with several parties,
including the People’s Conscience Party (Hanura) and the United Development
Party (PPP) threatening to walk out if the House legislative committee insisted
on maintaining the April 4 decision of 3 percent as the threshold.
Arif Wibowo from the Indonesian
Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) said they had three options. The first was
the 3 percent option, the second was to return to the old 2.5 percent option
while the third was to accommodate the large parties ambition that favored a 4
to 5 percent threshold.
“I warn all party leaders to seriously
consider this subject so they can have a solid answer later on at the plenary
meeting,” Arif said Tuesday.
Ali Wongso Sinaga from the Golkar
Party said that aside from the threshold discussion, there were two other
issues that need to be agreed upon: polling regions and chair counting methods.
