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PDI-P to summon Budiman following Prabowo's meet
Budiman would be the third PDI-P politician to be summoned by the party leadership to clarify some details from their meeting with Prabowo, after Surakarta Mayor Gibran Rakabuming Raka and lawmaker Effendi Simbolon.
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Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto (left) shakes hand with Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) politician Budiman Sudjatmiko in Jakarta on July 18, 2023. (The Jakarta Post/Antara)
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eadership of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) will summon its senior politician Budiman Sudjatmiko following his meeting with Gerindra Party chairman Prabowo Subianto earlier this week.
Budiman will be the third PDI-P politician to be summoned by the party leadership to clarify some details from their meeting with Prabowo, after Surakarta Mayor Gibran Rakabuming Raka and lawmaker Effendi Simbolon.
"We will summon him. There won't be any exception," head of PDI-P ethics council Komarudin Watubun was quoted by Antara on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, Budiman, a former lawmaker from the PDI-P, held a meeting with Prabowo at the latter's private residence on Jl. Kertanegara in South Jakarta.
Speaking after the meeting, Budiman heaped praise on Prabowo saying the defense minister was the kind of person that Indonesia needed right now. "Indonesia deserves one of its best people. One of them is Pak Prabowo," Budiman told reporters after the meeting.
Budiman, one of the student activist leaders who was kidnapped by a special team set up by the Indonesian Military (TNI) to crack down on the pro-democracy movement at the end of the New Order Era, has a long history of criticizing Prabowo in the past.
Budiman served as a lawmaker for the PDI-P twice between 2009 and 2014, representing an electoral district in Central Java. He failed to get reelected in 2019, running instead as a legislative candidate from a district in East Java.
