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Golkar will continue as one: Kalla
Party gathering: Vice President Jusuf Kalla (second left), accompanied by Coordinating for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan (left) and Justice and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly (second right, red shirt), greet Golkar chairman Aburizal Bakrie (right, bowing) during Golkar's national leaders' meeting in Jakarta on Jan
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Vice President Jusuf Kalla (second left), accompanied by Coordinating for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan (left) and Justice and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly (second right, red shirt), greet Golkar chairman Aburizal Bakrie (right, bowing) during Golkar's national leaders' meeting in Jakarta on Jan. 25. At the meeting, Golkar officially declared its support for President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Kalla's administration. (Antara/Yudhi Mahatma) (second left), accompanied by Coordinating for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan (left) and Justice and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly (second right, red shirt), greet Golkar chairman Aburizal Bakrie (right, bowing) during Golkar's national leaders' meeting in Jakarta on Jan. 25. At the meeting, Golkar officially declared its support for President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Kalla's administration. (Antara/Yudhi Mahatma)
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span class="inline inline-center">Party gathering: Vice President Jusuf Kalla (second left), accompanied by Coordinating for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan (left) and Justice and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly (second right, red shirt), greet Golkar chairman Aburizal Bakrie (right, bowing) during Golkar's national leaders' meeting in Jakarta on Jan. 25. At the meeting, Golkar officially declared its support for President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Kalla's administration. (Antara/Yudhi Mahatma)
No new party will arise out of the fractioned Golkar, despite the ongoing internal conflict dividing the veteran political party, Vice President and Golkar senior politician Jusuf Kalla said on Sunday.
Kalla said it was not easy to make a new political party.
"There will no such thing. We will just wait for the [extraordinary] national meeting and then all central board members and provinces will be reconciled," he said as quoted by newsportal kompas.com on Sunday.
Kalla, who leads the Golkar transitition team, said all related parties would meet next week to arrange the committee structure.
His team would only conduct supervision, he said, and not be directly involved in the national meeting.
Golkar, strongly affiliated with late dictator Soeharto and his New Order regime, have faced conflict between two internal factions ' one led by Aburizal Bakrie, who was elected party chairman at a national congress in Bali in November 2014, and a splinter faction led by Agung Laksono, who was elected at the Ancol national congress in December 2015.
The government, through Justice and Human Rights Miniser Yasona Laoly, issued a decree last week extending Aburizal's leadership based on a Riau national congress in 2014.
The decree gives Golkar six months to prepare for an extraordinary national meeting in order to unify the conflicting factions. (rin)(+)
