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http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/golkar-pledges-loyalty-to-coalition/427581 Golkar Pledges Loyalty to Coalition Camelia Pasandaran, Anita Rachman & Markus Junianto Sihaloho | March 09, 2011 President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, right, is greeted by Golkar Party Chairman Aburizal Bakrie during the party's 46thth anniversary in Jakarta, on Oct. 20, 2010. Rumgapres Photo/Abror Rizki With the Golkar Party confirming it will remain in the ruling coalition, attention is shifting to what fate awaits the Prosperous Justice Party. "Yes, we'll still be together in the coalition," Golkar chairman Aburizal Bakrie said after meeting President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Tuesday. The president said last week that parties who fail to support his government could face sanctions or expulsion from the Democratic Party-led coalition. Golkar and the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) have taken opposing positions from the government on several key issues, including on calls for probes into the Bank Century bailout and graft at the tax office. Officials from Yudhoyono's Democratic Party have recently spoken out publicly for sanctions against the two parties. Political analysts have said Yudhoyono cannot afford to lose the support of Golkar. The smaller PKS is considered less crucial for the coalition, though. To deal with the differences within the coalition, Aburizal said, a new agreement would be drawn up to bind all members. "In the new agreement, we asked [ Yudhoyono ] to set out clear boundaries," Aburizal said. "As long as we remain within those boundaries, differences in political views can be allowed." Julian Aldrin Pasha, a presidential spokesman, confirmed plans for a new agreement but said the president might still change the composition of the coalition and reshuffle his cabinet accordingly. "Over the next two weeks, the president will focus on looking at and deciding a new ruling coalition for the future," Julian said. Approaches have reportedly been made to parties outside the coalition, including the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) and Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P). Julian said the president would soon meet with officials from the PKS, although he declined to elaborate. Tifatul Sembiring, a PKS politician and the minister of communications and information technology, said on Tuesday that he hoped his party would remain in the coalition. "I think we need to sit down together and look at the political contract to reaffirm the fate of the coalition. There should be communication," he said. Mustafa Kamal, who leads the PKS faction in the legislature, said his party had always acted with the nation's interests in mind. "We must not attack each other and prioritize the nation's development," he said. Bima Arya Sugiarto, from the National Mandate Party (PAN), a coalition member, said that unless a new political contract was drawn up committing parties to support the government, the situation would not change. "The commitment to remain in the coalition should not just be lip service," he said. "If there are no revisions to the contract, then the same government instability will occur until 2014." Yunarto Wijaya, an analyst with Charta Politika, said the Democrats' "target" was the PKS, but he warned that forcing out the party, which has long been a backer of Yudhoyono, could have unintended consequences. "It would become a new campaign tool for the PKS, that the government's political cartel bullied them," he said. Join the debate online at thejakartaglobe.com or e-mail [email protected] (Please give your name & location) Want to comment on this or other stories today? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
