TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Golkar Party politician Agung Laksono has welcomed an offer from the party's Advisory Council chairman Akbar Tandjung that the latter would like to become a mediator between Aburizal Bakrie's camp and the former's.
Agung, however, said that the former Golkar chairman should be netural and balk at supporting Aburizal's upcoming national conference for the party's in Bali on Sunday. "It is said that Aburizal and Akbar are the dynamic duo," he said at his private residence on Wednesday.
Earlier, Akbar Tanjung said that the decision to convene the conference in Bali was a correct one as agreed by all of the party's stakeholders. "In the national meeting, the all agreed," Akbar said.
Akbar also voiced his concern over the row between Aburizal's and Agung's camps and offered to mediate the two quarrelling sides. "This is to secure the political agenda in 2019," he said.
MUHAMMAD MUHYIDDIN