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View all search resultsPPP factions hold stances awaiting court verdict
Two conflicting factions in the United Development Party (PPP) remain reluctant to reconcile while waiting for a verdict from the Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN) that will rule on the partyâs leadership
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wo conflicting factions in the United Development Party (PPP) remain reluctant to reconcile while waiting for a verdict from the Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN) that will rule on the party's leadership.
A faction led by former public housing minister Djan Faridz has invited its rival faction, led by Muhammad 'Romy' Romahurmuziy, to make a 'peaceful reconciliation' in advance of the PTUN's verdict concerning the Djan faction's lawsuit against a ministerial decree that had acknowledged Romy's chairmanship over the whole party.
Djan, a businessman-turned-politician, was elected PPP chairman during the party's national congress held in early November as a challenge to another congress organized earlier in Surabaya, which had announced Romy as the party's new leader.
PPP politician Fernita Darwis, one of Djan's deputies, said the abrupt internal rift had hampered the party's image and peaceful reconciliation would help it regain the trust of loyal supporters.
'I believe everyone in the PPP wants this internal rift to end immediately so that we can see the party rise again [in the next election],' Fernita, the party's election campaign team (Bapilu) chief, told The Jakarta Post on Monday.
Fernita, however, underlined that reconciliation was possible only on the condition that Romy's camp would be 'willing to recognize Djan's leadership'.
The internal rift within the country's oldest Islamic party began after Romy and many PPP executives openly challenged Suryadharma's decision to seal the PPP into a permanent alliance with the opposition Red-and-White Coalition, whose members are political parties that supported the unsuccessful presidential bid of Gerindra Party chief patron Prabowo Subianto.
In response to the lawsuit filed by Djan's camp, the PTUN has suspended the ministerial decree that had recognized Romy as party chairman, ordering the ministry to obey the court order and not issue any other decrees related to the PPP before the court delivers its verdict.
Fernita said her camp was confident that the court would approve its request to permanently revoke the ministerial decree.
'Next month, the PTUN will carry out [case] hearings twice a week. At that speed, we are expecting to see the final verdict announced by early February 2015,' she said.
