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PKS moves closer to Tommy Soeharto, Anies
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Anies Baswedan (left) is captured in a photo alongside Soeharto's youngest son, Tommy Soeharto (right). (pandji.com/File)
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he Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) is hoping to come back strong in regional elections and in the presidential election in the next five years by embracing Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan and Berkarya Party chairman Hutomo Mandala Putra, better known as Tommy Soeharto.
At the party’s recent national congress in Jakarta, PKS advisory board chairman Salim Segaf al-Jufri expressed hope for his party’s bright future in the 2024 presidential and legislative elections.
“I wish that in 2024, Insya Allah [God willing] we won’t be a mid-tier party anymore. I want us to be the number one party in this country,” he said to party cadres on Thursday.
The Islamic party got mixed results this year. It ranked sixth in the legislative election with 11.49 million votes, marking a significant increase from the 8.48 million votes it gained five years ago.
The party failed to help Prabowo Subianto win the presidential election. After the defeat, Prabowo and his Gerindra Party jumped ship, joining President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s big-tent coalition. The PKS, meanwhile, has explained it will remain in the opposition for the next five years.
As part of its strategy to win the 2024 elections, PKS president Sohibul Iman is scheduled to meet Tommy Soeharto – the Berkarya Party chairman and the youngest son of former president Soeharto – this week.
In 2002, Tommy was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment for ordering the murder of Supreme Court justice Syaifuddin Kartasasmita, who had handed him a guilty verdict for corruption in 2000.
