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Djan Faridz camp to declare official support for govt
Close talk: The chairman of the United Development Party (PPP) central executive board, as elected in a national meeting in Jakarta in November 2014, Djan Faridz (left), talks with former PPP chairman Suryadharma Ali
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Close talk: The chairman of the United Development Party (PPP) central executive board, as elected in a national meeting in Jakarta in November 2014, Djan Faridz (left), talks with former PPP chairman Suryadharma Ali. Djan said on Monday that his party would declare its support for the government in hope that it would issue a decree recognizing him as party leader. (Tempo) (PPP) central executive board, as elected in a national meeting in Jakarta in November 2014, Djan Faridz (left), talks with former PPP chairman Suryadharma Ali. Djan said on Monday that his party would declare its support for the government in hope that it would issue a decree recognizing him as party leader. (Tempo)
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span class="inline inline-center">Close talk: The chairman of the United Development Party (PPP) central executive board, as elected in a national meeting in Jakarta in November 2014, Djan Faridz (left), talks with former PPP chairman Suryadharma Ali. Djan said on Monday that his party would declare its support for the government in hope that it would issue a decree recognizing him as party leader. (Tempo)
The chairman of the United Development Party (PPP) central executive board, as elected at the party's national congress (Muktamar) in Jakarta in November 2014, Djan Faridz, says it will imitate the Golkar Party and declare support for President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla's administration to get a decree that recognizes his camp's leadership of the party.
As of today, Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna H. Laoly had not yet issued that decree, although a recent Supreme Court (MA) ruling recognized Djan's leadership.
'We will join with the ranks of political parties supporting the government,' Djan said as quoted by kompas.com after he attended the closing ceremony of a meeting of Golkar leaders aligned with Aburizal Bakrie at the Jakarta Convention Center in Senayan, Central Jakarta, on Monday evening.
Djan and the PPP's secretary-general, Dimyati Natakusuma, were the only representatives of other political parties who attended the meeting.
Djan admitted that his attendance was also aimed at learning the dynamics of what occurred in the Golkar Party. He said the meeting of the Aburizal camp was successful because it was attended by Vice President Jusuf Kalla, Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan, Home Minister Tjahjo Kumolo and Yasonna.
Kalla was also reported to have given the Aburizal camp approval to organize an extraordinary national meeting (Munaslub) with a prerequisite that it must accommodate the party's splinter faction led by Agung Laksono.
'We will also hold a national leaders meeting. We will resolve our internal conflicts there,' said Djan.
He added that although the PPP was part of the Red-and-White Coalition, which nominated losing presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto and his running mate Hatta Rajasa for the 2014 presidential election, it had always supported the Jokowi-Kalla administration's policies. Still, Djan said, the PPP must more clearly show its support by joining the ranks of the political parties supporting the government. (ebf)(+)
