The internal conflict in Indonesia’s largest opposition party was made public early last month when party chairman Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, the eldest son of party patriarch and former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY), accused an unnamed State Palace official of complicity in a deliberate attempt to unseat him from the party leadership.

The statement is believed to have been directed at Presidential Chief of Staff Moeldoko, who acknowledged meeting with several party members but denied taking any part in what Agus called an “attempted coup” against him.

The political squabble, however, took a new twist on Thursday after Democratic Party executive Andi Arief claimed on Twitter that Moeldoko was planning to hold a meeting with several senior party members to plot a “coup” against Agus.

“This is not a rumor. Pak Moeldoko and some party members will carry out a coup,” Andi tweeted.

He claimed that the party had found evidence that Moeldoko planned to hold the meeting in a hotel in North Sumatra and that some party members known to be opposed to Agus’ leadership such as Jhoni Allen Marbun, Yus Sudarso, Darmizal, Ahmad Yahya, Marzuki Alie and Max Sopacua were scheduled to attend the meeting.

“We hope that the President [Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo] and State [Secretary Pratikno] are not aware of Pak Moeldoko’s departure for North Sumatra in an attempt to take over the Democratic Party leadership from [Agus],” he said.

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