TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
KIB should be dissolved if parties fail to agree on backing Ganjar, PPP says
The United Development Party (PPP) has called for the dissolution of the Golkar Party-led United Indonesia Coalition (KIB), the first electoral alliance to be formed ahead of the 2024 elections, if members cannot agree on backing Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo’s presidential bid.
Change Size
National Mandate Party (PAN) chairman Zulkifli Hasan (center left), Golkar Party chairman Airlangga Hartarto (center) and United Development Party (PPP) chairman Suharso Monoarfa (center right) walk together in linked arms after registering their parties’ joint participation in the 2024 election with the General Elections Commission (KPU) in Jakarta on Aug. 10, 2022. (Antara/Aprillio Akbar)
The United Development Party (PPP) has called for the dissolution of the Golkar Party-led United Indonesia Coalition (KIB), the first electoral alliance to be formed ahead of the 2024 election, if members cannot agree on backing Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo’s presidential bid.
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.
