JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – Several leaders of Golkar Party have pushed the party to hold its national meeting (Munas) this year, earlier from initial schedule of 2015, to choose the new party chairman.
Yorrys Raweyai, one executive of Golkar, told Kompas on Friday (July 11) that the main reason is the failure of Golkar Chairman Aburizal “Ical” Bakrie to lead the party to win legislative and presidential elections.
Yorrys called five years term of Ical’s leadership as the worst Golkar period.
In a different place, Suhardiman, the founder of the Central Organization for Indonesian Employees (SOKSI), one of the Golkar’s oldest affiliate organizations, urged the party to hold its national meeting approximately on October 4-8, 2014 to choose new party chairman.
According to Suhardiman, SOKSI has also sent a motion of distrust to Ical.
Golkar ends up April 9 legislative election as a runner up behind PDI-P. Golkar secured 16.25% or 91 out of 560 parliament seats.
In July 9 presidential election, Golkar endorsed Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa pair instead of former Golkar Chairman Jusuf Kalla, who entered in the race as the running mate of Joko “Jokowi” Widodo.
The decision to endorse Prabowo-Hatta had triggered protest from those within the party. (haryantos@yosefardi.biz)