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National scene: Opposition coalition not dead yet: PKS cadre
JAKARTA: A senior member of the Islamic-based Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), Hidayat Nur Wahid, has insisted that the opposition Red-and-White Coalition (KMP) continues to remain in existence, despite most of its member parties having jumped ship to the government coalition
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AKARTA: A senior member of the Islamic-based Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), Hidayat Nur Wahid, has insisted that the opposition Red-and-White Coalition (KMP) continues to remain in existence, despite most of its member parties having jumped ship to the government coalition.
'There has been no official declaration that the KMP has disbanded. There remain the PKS and the Gerindra Party as members,' Hidayat said on Friday as quoted by kompas.com.
Hidayat said that although a number of erstwhile members of the coalition, including the National Mandate Party, Golkar Party and United Development Party (PPP), had expressed their support for the government of President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo, none of the parties had issued an official statement announcing their withdrawal from the KMP. 'If we disband, we will announce it. We will not bow out silently,' Hidayat said.
The KMP, which initially consisted of five political parties ' Gerindra, PAN, the PPP, Golkar and the PKS ' was formed to support the nomination of Prabowo Subianto in the 2014 presidential election.
Following Prabowo's loss in the election, the parties established an opposition coalition in the House of Representatives, succeeding in wresting control of many House leadership positions.
Recently, however, PAN, Golkar and the PPP publicly changed their stance, voicing support for the policies of President Jokowi's administration.
