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Golkar to implement new strategies in support of govt
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New leaders -- Newly elected Golkar Party chairman Setya Novanto (center) is congratulated by the party’s plenary leader Nurdin Halid (right) and Setya’s main rival Ade Komarudin (left) during the party's extraordinary national congress in Nusa Dua, Bali, held on May 15 to May 17. (thejakartapost.com/Zul Trio Anggono)
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he Golkar Party has planned to implement several political strategies following its "reposition", as it is now part of the government’s coalition, a party executive has said.
Golkar executive chairman Nurdin Halid said the party’s central executive board (DPP) would take control of political maneuvering by getting its organization in line and directing each of its factions to support the government.
"Before our repositioning, we criticized the government from the outside, but now, we must do it from the inside," Nurdin told a press conference at Golkar headquarters in Slipi, West Jakarta, on Monday.
The senior politician ensured that no Golkar politician would scorn the government for the next three years.
Nurdin went on to say the Golkar Party would support President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla's program Nawa Cita (the President's nine priorities), which aimed to accelerate infrastructure development and enable high economic growth for the country.
He further said Jokowi’s program was in line with Golkar's vision of the nation being a welfare state by 2045.
"It [the infrastructure development] is not merely aimed at easing transportation but more to strengthen the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia [NKRI]," said Nurdin.
Golkar chairman Setya Novanto said in a press conference that the party’s new central executive board, which was announced on Monday, had its first 100-day program to complete.
He said the new board, called the Golkar Party's Work Acceleration central executive board, was set to hold its first work meeting on Wednesday. During the meeting, all board members would discuss not only its first 100-day program but also its one-year and three-year programs because the board only had a three-year tenure until 2019.
Previously, Golkar showed its allegiance to the Jokowi-Kalla administration earlier this year, at its national leaders' meeting (Rapimnas) in January.
Having had a comfortable 32-year position as the ruling party during the Soeharto era, Golkar shifted to the opposition coalition in 2014. Under the leadership of the party's former chairman Aburizal Bakrie, Golkar joined the Gerindra Party, the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), the National Mandate Party (PAN), and the Crescent Star Party (PKB) in the Red-and-White Coalition (KMP). (ebf)
