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Jokowi meets Golkar chairman to discuss Ahok
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Golkar Party chairman Setya Novanto (center) smiles as he witnesses the handover of an official support letter from Golkar Jakarta branch chairman Fayakhun Andriadi (right) to Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama on June 24. Novanto met President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Thursday to discuss a blasphemy case implicating Ahok. (Antara/Abdul Khoir)
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resident Joko “Jokowi” Widodo invited Golkar Party chairman Setya Novanto to the Presidential Palace on Thursday to discuss an ongoing blasphemy case implicating incumbent Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama.
Setya said the President asked Golkar, the country’s second largest political party, to assist in maintaining the peace within society for the sake of the country’s unity.
“We also hope people and religious leaders together will closely watch the legal process [of Ahok] and accept whatever the result is [from] the police and [later] by the court,” Novanto said after the meeting with Jokowi had ended, as reported by kompas.com.
In the closed-door meeting, Jokowi reiterated that he would not intervene in the legal process, Novanto added.
(Read also: Jokowi calls on public to respect blasphemy investigation)
On Wednesday, the police declared Ahok as a suspect in the blasphemy case related to his statement about a verse in the Quran during an event in Thousand Islands regency last month.
Golkar, along with the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), the NasDem Party and the Hanura Party have endorsed Ahok and incumbent Deputy Governor Djarot Saiful Hidayat to run in the next year’s gubernatorial election. (jun)
