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number of Golkar Party politicians have expressed their belief that a recently concluded legal process will not hamper the party'€™s commitment to ongoing reconciliation efforts.

The Supreme Court (MA) rejected a cassation plea to overturn a North Jakarta District Court ruling that legitimized the party'€™s leadership under incumbent chairman Aburizal Bakrie, who was renamed chairman during a disputed congress in Bali in 2014.

The plea, lodged by the faction of former rival Agung Laksono, was rejected by a panel of cassation judges on Monday, possibly throwing off the long-awaited plan to unite the warring camps.

Both Aburizal and Agung have since announced that they would not compete in the upcoming congress, a decision that was further strengthened by the Law and Human Rights Ministry'€™s recent decree to restore Golkar'€™s 2009 management roster.

Airlangga Hartarto, one of the many candidate hopefuls running for the position of chairmanship in the upcoming extraordinary national congress (Munaslub), said he believed that incumbent chairman Aburizal Bakrie would forego the opportunity to reclaim the party reigns through the placement of his supporters on the organizing committee (OC).

'€œThe Law and Human Rights Ministry has decided to restore the Riau management roster until July, and I believe that the spirit of reconciliation has set in,'€ he told reporters on Tuesday.