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PKS politician's dismissal confirmed
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Out of favor – Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) politician Fahri Hamzah talks to journalists while attending the party’s fourth national meeting in Depok, West Java, on Sept.14, 2015. The PKS central executive board confirmed on Monday that it had dismissed Fahri, who is a House of Representatives deputy speaker. (Kompas.com/Abba Gabrillin)
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he Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) confirmed on Monday that one of its politicians, House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Fahri Hamzah, had been dismissed in a written statement signed by party’s chairman, Sohibul Iman.
“The Tahkim [arbitration] council has decided to accept the party’s disciplinary committee's [BPDO] recommendation to dismiss FH from PKS membership,” Sohibul said on Monday in a statement uploaded onto the party’s official website pks.or.id.
It was announced that the PKS’s Tahkim council made the decision on March 11 and informed the party’s central leadership board (DPTP) on March 20. “On March 23, the DPTP conveyed the decision to the PKS central executive board [DPP] to follow up on it in line with the party’s rules of association and internal bylaws [AD/ART],” said Sohibul.
A copy of a letter on Fahri’s dismissal circulated among the media on Sunday. When journalists asked Sohibul about the validity of the information, he refused to clarify. He simply stated that a decision on Fahri had been made.
Fahri is widely known for his controversial statements. In February, Fahri criticized President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s high-speed train project worth billions of dollars, saying that this project was not consistent with the President’s maritime-axis vision.
Fahri claimed that the project would be a financial burden on the state budget and state railway company PT Kereta Api Indonesia, which would operate the high-speed train connecting Jakarta and Bandung, the capital of West Java. He also said the project could put at risk land belonging to the state and to local people, and trigger social unrest in areas affected by the project.
In January, the House deputy speaker bickered with Corruption Eradication Commission investigators after they searched the office of Budi Supriyanto, a Golkar Party faction member on House Commission V overseeing transportation and infrastructure, for evidence on the latter’s alleged involvement in a graft case at the Public Works and Public Housing Ministry.
Fahri claimed that the KPK’s move to involve Mobile Brigade (Brimob) personnel in the search was illegal. (ebf)
