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Govt gives nod to initial PPP leadership
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Party time: United Development Party (PPP) chair Djan Faridz (left) talks to former PPP chairman Suryadharma Ali. The Law and Human Rights Ministry has reactivated a decree recognizing Dian's leadership amid a party civil war.
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he Law and Human Rights Ministry has reactivated a decree that recognized the United Development Party's (PPP) leadership as that decided at a national congress (muktamar) in Bandung, West Java, in 2011.
Under the decree, the PPP central executive board, the term of office of which should have expired in 2015, will be given the authority to form a committee to hold a reconciliation congress, marking the beginning of the end of the party's civil war.
“We hereby decide to reactivate the 2012 Law and Human Rights Minister Decree that legalized the PPP central executive board for the period of 2011-2015,” Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna H.Laoly said at the ministry on Wednesday.
The ministry’s decision resolves a leadership battle that has split the party into two factions, namely the Djan Faridz-led PPP leadership resulting from the Jakarta muktamar in November 2014 and the splinter faction led by Muhammad Romahurmuziy from the Surabaya muktamar in October 2014.
At the 2011 Bandung muktamar, then religious affairs minister Suryadharma Ali was appointed as the party chairman and Romahurmuziy as its general secretary.
The Law and Human Rights Ministry said the PPP central executive board from the Bandung muktamar would be reactivated for the next six months. The decision was taken in response to a Supreme Court ruling revoking the ministry’s decree that had legalized the PPP leadership elected at the Surabaya muktamar.
"The Bandung muktamar leadership is allowed to form a committee for the organizing of an extraordinary muktamar," Yasonna said. (ebf)
