PPP must look to future: Minister

Sumber: The Jakarta Post | Editor: Dupla Kartini

JAKARTA. The United Development Party (PPP) needs to reconcile immediately to ensure it is prepared to face major upcoming political events, according to a senior member.

Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna H. Laoly said all party members should consolidate to create a strong PPP. "The PPP could become a great party through reconciliation, as I think most members realize," Yasonna told journalists before attending a meeting with the House of Representatives’ Commission III overseeing legal affairs and laws, human rights and security at the House complex in Senayan, Central Jakarta, on Monday.

The PPP is set to form a new leadership in the next 14 days following the party's eighth muktamar (national congress) held at the Pondok Gede Haj Dormitory in East Jakarta over the weekend.

The leadership structure is to include all factions, including supporters of Djan Faridz , who was elected party chair at a Jakarta muktamar in November 2014.

Romahurmuziy, chairman of the PPP leadership formed at a Surabaya muktamar in October 2014, was re-elected on Saturday as party chairman by acclamation.

Romahurmuziy will work with a team appointed to form the party's central executive board.  Once a board is formed, the party will be consolidated at the regional level.

He promised that he would give a prestigious role to Djan if the latter were willing to acknowledge and join the PPP's central executive board elected at the eighth muktamar. "I have said that a respectable role will always be available for him," Romahurmuziy said as quoted by kompas.com on Sunday after the closing of the muktamar.

In an earlier statement, Djan insisted he would never acknowledge the results of the eighth muktamar and would press on with a lawsuit against the government for not recognizing his leadership.

Both Yasonna and Vice President Jusuf Kalla have claimed to have talked with Djan regarding the latter's stance. Speaking on Sunday, Kalla said he had persuaded Djan to accept the results of the eighth muktamar.

Meanwhile, Yasonna said he had requested one of his best friends to speak with Djan. It was reported that the minister’s best friend, who was not named, had persuaded Djan to accept the reconciliation. "The PPP conflict has been ended through the organizing of the muktamar," Yasonna insisted. (Erika Anindita Dewi)

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