The United Development Party'€™s central executive board, formed during a national congress (muktamar) in Jakarta in November 2014, will strive to reconcile with rival PPP faction officials elected in a muktamar in Surabaya in October of the same year, the party secretary-general has said.

PPP secretary-general Dimyati Natakusumah said the internal reconciliation would be conducted soon after Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly issued a decree legalizing the PPP leadership elected in the Jakarta muktamar.

'€œWe want to reconcile with officials elected in the Surabaya muktamar.

'€œWe will unite and become a single PPP that is strong and can win the 2019 election,'€ said Dimyati as quoted by kompas.com at the Law and Human Rights Ministry in Jakarta on Monday.

The politician said the PPP leadership from the Jakarta muktamar, which was led by Djan Faridz, would hold a string of dialogues with members of its rival faction. It was also planned that during the reconciliation, both sides would sign an integrity pact.

Dimyati said it was guaranteed that there would be neither member dismissals nor recalling of House of Representatives members from the party'€™s splinter faction led by Muhammad Romahurmuziy. He further said the PPP would allow members who did not want to join the party under a leadership elected in the Jakarta muktamar to take a stance because there would be no more dualism of leadership in the party.

'€œWe will embrace all parties. We will make a party with integrity, in which there will be no member dismissals,'€ said Dimyati.

He further said the PPP'€™s central executive board formed during the Jakarta muktamar would also immediately complete documents required for the submission of a party leadership approval request to the law and human rights minister.

Dimyati said the PPP would support the government and all its members would be happy to accept any offer to work with the President Joko '€œJokowi'€ Widodo administration.

'€œWe will support the government so it can work well. If it wants to ask us to join with the government, we will happily accept the offer,'€ he said.

He further claimed that relations between the PPP and the State Palace and government officials was quite close. Such close relations had made it easy for the PPP to give input to the government, especially on a Cabinet reshuffle.

Dimyati also said the PPP no longer wanted to be considered a party that supported the opposition Red-and-White Coalition (KMP) as it aimed to become an independent party that put the interests of the people first.

'€œThere will be no KMP, there will be no KIH [Great Indonesia Coalition]. There will be only the PPP, which is independent '€“ a green party that is cool, which will fight for the people'€™s interests and support the legal government,'€ said Dimyati, referring two opposing coalitions that supported presidential candidates Jokowi and Prabowo Subianto in the 2014 presidential election. (ebf)

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