'€œWe agree not to disrupt or overthrow the current government for the next five years,'€ kompas.com quoted Agun Gunandjar Sudarsa, a negotiator from Agung Laksono'€™s camp, as saying after a meeting at Golkar Headquarters on Thursday.

He added, however, that the two camps were still at odds over the party'€™s position on whether it would leave the Red and White Coalition but were agreed that the party would remain critical of the government but be ready to help if it was asked to do so.

Agun also said the atmosphere during the dialogue was conducive and this should be maintained toward a true reconciliation.

He said the two camps agreed to support direct local elections, to try to win the elections in 2019 and to support provincial and regency chapters in appointing local functionaries to contend local elections.

'€œOur presence in the Red and White Coalition should be reviewed to return to our own identity. This is an internal matters and it has no relation either the Red and White Coalition or the Great Indonesia Coalition,'€ he said.

The meeting was a follow up on the first dialogue held on Dec. 23, 2014. The next meeting is scheduled for Jan. 13-14.

Separately. Vice President Jusuf Kalla said the better communications that had been built up by the two camps'€™ negotiators, were expected to help create political stability.

He admitted that the government was playing a mediating role for the two sides.

'€œThe political situation will be stable because since yesterday, Golkar has issued better statements,'€ he said in his vice presidential office.

Kalla, a former Golkar chairman, said that political stability was expected to make progress with economic development.(rms)(+++)

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