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Golkar says corrupt cadres harm political targets
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Disgraced: Golkar Youth Generation (AMPG) chairman Fahd El Fouz bin A. Rafiq (center) leaves the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in Jakarta on April 28 after he attended a questioning as a graft suspect in the Quran procurement project at the Religious Affairs Ministry. (Antara/M Agung Rajasa)
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he arrest of its top cadre Fahd El Fouz A. Rafiq in a corruption case surrounding the government’s Quran procurement project would harm the Golkar Party’s targets to boost votes in the two elections slated for 2018 and 2019, a party top leader said on Friday.
Yorrys Raweyai, Golkar’s head of political, legal and security affairs division, said the party needed to immediately take “strategic steps to repair its name,” claiming the recent arrest of Fahd would affect the party’s political ambitions in the 2018 simultaneous regional elections and the 2019 concurrent presidential and legislative elections.
“It’s now the worst period for Golkar after the reform era,” said Yorrys as quoted by kompas.com on Friday.
(Read also: KPK summons Quran procurement graft suspect)
Yorrys further said the arrest of Fahd had tainted the reputation of the country’s oldest surviving political party. He said “a new Golkar” inaugurated by senior politician Akbar Tanjung was championing the effort to eradicate corruption, but he was pessimistic the party could pursue the aim especially after the recent arrest.
On Thursday, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) named Fahd, the Golkar Youth Generation (AMPG) chairman, a suspect in a graft case related to the Quran procurement project at the Religious Affairs Ministry and a computer laboratory for Islamic senior high school Madrasah Tsanawiyah during the 2011-2012 period. (mos/ebf)
