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Kalla rules out extraordinary national congress
Reconciliation: Vice President and former Golkar Party chairman Jusuf Kalla calls on the two party factions, led by Aburizal Bakrie and Agung Laksono, to settle their disputes through existing internal mechanisms
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Reconciliation: Vice President and former Golkar Party chairman Jusuf Kalla calls on the two party factions, led by Aburizal Bakrie and Agung Laksono, to settle their disputes through existing internal mechanisms. (KOMPAS.com/Sabrina Asril) (KOMPAS.com/Sabrina Asril)
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span class="inline inline-center">Reconciliation: Vice President and former Golkar Party chairman Jusuf Kalla calls on the two party factions, led by Aburizal Bakrie and Agung Laksono, to settle their disputes through existing internal mechanisms. (KOMPAS.com/Sabrina Asril)
Vice President and former Golkar Party chairman Jusuf Kalla has said there will be no extraordinary national meeting (Munaslub) of the Golkar Party despite mounting rejection of a recent Supreme Court (MA) ruling legalizing the party leadership elected at Golkar's eighth national meeting (Munas) in Riau in 2009.
'There will be no Munaslub. The most important thing is that we follow all legal processes,' he said as quoted by kompas.com on Monday. The Golkar politician was speaking during a national event to offer thanks to God at the party's central executive board office (DPP) in Jakarta on Sunday evening.
Kalla made the statement in response to murmurs about the organization of a Munaslub that circulated after the MA ruling was handed down.
The Vice President said that currently the government was considering Golkar a single, united party. The government also fully entrusted the reconciliation process ' between Golkar's leadership from the 2009 Munas, led by Aburizal Bakrie, and a splinter group led by chairman Agung Laksono ' to internal mechanisms.
'Definitely, the MA's ruling must be abided by. This should be implemented through joint dialogues held in accordance with Golkar Party rules,' said Kalla.
The party's national gathering on Monday evening was initiated as a reconciliation step by Nurdin Halid and Yorrys Raweyai, representatives from two factions involved in the party's internal conflict.
Chairman of Golkar's splinter group, Agung Laksono, said separately that his faction would submit a second appeal for a case review (PK) of the MA's ruling legalizing the Aburizal Bakrie leadership.
'It is still being processed,' he said in Jakarta on Sunday.
Agung said that before submitting the second appeal, his faction would first study the ruling carefully. Up till now, he said, his faction had not yet received copies of the ruling. The appeal could still be cancelled, he said, if there were developments in their discussions with Aburizal's camp.
Agung said one of steps his faction wanted most was the organizing of a Munaslub, as that was the most appropriate way to resolve leadership-related conflicts within the party.
On May 19, the Jakarta State Administrative Court's (PTUN) panel of judges annulled a decree by Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna H. Laoly, which legalized Golkar's leadership elected at a national meeting in Ancol, Jakarta, in 2014.
The PTUN restored the party's leadership to those elected at the Munas in Riau in 2009, making Aburizal party chairman, Idrus Marham secretary-general and Agung deputy chairman. (ebf)
