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wo rival factions within the Golkar Party have showed no signs of backing down in spite of a truce pledge made by party leaders Aburizal Bakrie and his rival Agung Laksono.

Although Aburizal and Agung recently agreed to reconcile their differences and iron out the kinks in the party'€™s management board, both leaders led separate meetings at the party'€™s headquarters in West Jakarta on Friday.

'€œWe don'€™t have joint meetings. We are carrying out our activities separately,'€ secretary-general of the Agung-led faction, Zainudin Amali, said on Friday.

He said that the meeting led by Agung on the third floor of the party'€™s headquarters was attended by delegation from the party'€™s provincial branches and discussed the next steps to be taken after the Supreme Court'€™s ruling.

In October, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Aburizal, granting him the leadership of the party, annulling the high court ruling that gave the party leadership to Agung.

While Agung'€™s camp held its meeting downstairs, the Aburizal-led faction held its own meeting on the fourth floor, discussing the next steps it would take to deal with possible legal moves by its rival.

'€œWe are consolidating for future actions,'€ Aburizal said.

At the meeting were Aburizal'€™s loyal supporters Idrus Marham, Siti Hediyati Hariyadi, Aziz Syamsuddin, Bambang Soesatyo, Tantowi Yahya and Ade Komarudin.

Also making an appearance at the meeting was Yorrys Raweyai, a senior politician who recently announced his departure from Agung'€™s camp.

Yorrys said that he no longer shared Agung'€™s vision.

'€œAfter the temporary reconciliation [between the two factions], I felt like I didn'€™t belong anymore, and I expressed this stance during a number of meetings,'€ Yorrys said on Friday.

He accused Agung of rigging the nomination process of regional-election candidates at the General Elections Commission (KPU).

'€œAt first there were 248 candidates nominated. But during the signing at the KPU on Aug. 9, it all changed,'€ said Yorrys.

He also accused Agung of disbanding the team of five people from his faction tasked with scouting candidates for the Dec. 9 simultaneous regional elections.

Agung'€™s camp acknowledged that Yorrys had resigned from his position as deputy chairman.

'€œHe said [he would like to resign] in the last two meetings,'€ Zainudin said. '€œThe point is that we respect his political decision.'€

In the meeting, Aburizal'€™s camp also expressed condemnation toward the Agung-led faction for continuing its legal battle against Aburizal.

On Monday, Agung'€™s legal team filed a petition for a case review of the Supreme Court'€™s ruling legalizing Aburizal'€™s leadership.

'€œI advise [them] to repent. All Indonesians are fed up seeing those who had lost [in the legal battle] being so persistent,'€ a member of Aburizal'€™s camp, Bambang Soesatyo, said on Friday.

Meanwhile, Vice President Jusuf Kalla, who brokered the reconciliation attempt, maintained on Friday that the conflict between the two camps had ended, with the two rival factions agreeing to form a new party structure.

He said that both factions had discussed the mechanism to form the new party structure.

'€œNow [they'€™re] talking every day. From that dialogue, the new uniformed structure will be formed,'€ Kalla told reporters at his office in Central Jakarta.

Agung had previously called for a national congress, citing that the government had yet to revoke
a ministerial decree that granted him leadership and allowed him to gain control of the party'€™s regional chapters.

Aburizal, on the other hand, objected to the idea of holding another national congress, deeming it to be unnecessary since the Supreme Court had ruled to grant him the leadership of the party back.