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View all search resultsEleven Golkar lawmakers reprimanded for disobedience
Golkar Party lawmaker Zainuddin Amali said that he and 10other Golkar lawmakers who had favored direct regional elections during a plenarymeeting at the House of Representatives had been reprimanded by the party'scentral executive board
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olkar Party lawmaker Zainuddin Amali said that he and 10other Golkar lawmakers who had favored direct regional elections during a plenarymeeting at the House of Representatives had been reprimanded by the party'scentral executive board.
The 10 other lawmakers were Poempida Hidayatulloh, Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita, Nusron Wahid, Emil Abeng, Neil Iskandar, Oheo Sinapoy, Gusti Iskandar, Chairuman Harahap, Nudirman Munir, and Taufik Hidayat.
'This is my final warning. One more mistake and my political career will be over,' he said on Saturday, as quoted by kompas.com.
Poempida had previously said that he voted for direct elections solely because that was what the people wanted. Therefore, he decided to disobey the chairman's order to vote for indirect regional elections.
Despite the 11 votes from Golkar, the camp supporting direct elections, which consisted of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), the National Awakening Party (PKB) and the Hanura Party, still went down to bitter defeat because the number of its votes totaled 135 only, which were far fewer than the 226 votes cast by the camp supporting indirect elections, which consisted of the Golkar Party, the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), the National Mandate Party (PAN), the United Development Party (PPP) and the Gerindra Party. (alz/dic)
