Golkar, the country’s oldest party and the second largest party in the House of Representatives, has been leading the KIB, its partnership with two other pro-government parties, the PPP and the National Mandate Party (PAN). The bloc has yet to nominate a unified presidential ticket for next year’s election and signs of complication popped up after the PPP announced last month that it endorsed Ganjar of the non-member Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) instead.

Ganjar has been named as a presidential candidate by the PDI-P, the largest party in the ruling coalition of which President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is a member.

PPP central board executive Achmad Baidowi said the KIB alliance would only remain intact going forward if it ended up backing the same presidential candidate.

“If the presidential candidate was Ganjar, then the KIB will work with the PDI-P. If, however, there is no agreement on who will be the presidential candidate, the KIB should not carry on [and should cease to exist],” Achmad said in a statement on Saturday.

The future of the alliance came into question as Golkar recently hinted at the possibility of supporting Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, a presidential nominee of the Great Indonesia Awakening Coalition (KKIR), in the upcoming election in exchange for naming its chairman Airlangga Hartarto as Prabowo’s running mate.

This, however, does not bode well with the only partner of the Gerindra Party in the KKIR: the National Awakening Party (PKB), which has been pushing for its own chairman Muhaimin Iskandar to run as a vice presidential candidate.