TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Chairman of the advisory board of the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra), Prabowo Subianto, was scheduled to attend the United Development Party's (PPP) declaration to support him as a presidential candidate yesterday.
The declaration was made amid an escalated internal conflict in the party. Efforts to topple PPP chairman, Suryadharma Ali, have caused a number of the party’s cadres, including PPP’s chairman of division for election, Suharso Monoarfa, and chairman of the PPP for West Java, Rahmat Yasin to be sacked.
The internal conflict started when Suryadharma attended Gerindra’s political campaign. The move triggered rage among PPP’s elites. Regional executives of the party called the move was a disgrace to the party and its cadres.
PRIHANDOKO