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Muladi rejects giving testimony in court
Muladi, a senior figure of the Aburizal Bakrie-led Golkar Party faction and chairman of the partyâs ethics council, declined to give testimony to the State Administrative Court (PTUN) on Monday regarding the prolonged internal conflict in the party
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uladi, a senior figure of the Aburizal Bakrie-led Golkar Party faction and chairman of the party's ethics council, declined to give testimony to the State Administrative Court (PTUN) on Monday regarding the prolonged internal conflict in the party.
He did not show up at a court hearing in East Jakarta because he said it was unethical for the chairman of the party's ethics council to give testimony at the PTUN.
'It is unethical for [the ethics council chairman], as one of the judges who has tried and decided on the case, to give testimony to the PTUN,' he said in a letter to all conflicting sides and their lawyers.
Muladi said all parties should accept the ethics council's decision because both the West Jakarta District Court and the Central Jakarta District Court had asked the council to settle the internal conflict.
'Based on the court instructions, the party's ethics council tried the internal conflict and its decision is final and binding,' he said as quoted by kompas.com.
Two members of the four-person ethics council accepted a Jakarta congress held by the Agung Laksono camp while two others abstained, but the Aburizal camp denied the ethics council's decision and filed a lawsuit with the PTUN against the law and human rights minister, who had issued a ministerial decision to recognize the Agung camp's leadership of the party. (rms)(++++)
