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GOVT URGED TO FORM PERMANENT COALITION

Jakarta, Dec 29 (ANTARA) - General Chairman of the National Awakening Party Muhaimin Iskandar recommended that the government in the future form a permanent coalition of political parties.
"The next government should avoid the present platform of coalition which is still not solid and relies too much on compromises," he said here on Monday.

He made the remark in an event on a year-end reflection of this party pertaining to an effort to measure the Yudhoyono-Kalla Government's siding with Food, Energy and Financial Resilience which was also attended by economic analyst Faisal Tanjung, Food Expert HS Dillon and Oil Affairs Observer Kurtubi.
In addition, according to him, the next government should have the courage to take the right and proper national policies.

A clear agenda for the next five years should have been prepared and all the political parties in the country should have a similar agenda.

"An obvious agenda, for example, was that since 2009 we will really be able to minimize the allocation for foreign debts. Now we don't have any such clear agenda," he said.

However, Huhaimin admitted that the present government also had made a success amidst existing weaknesses. More such successes need to be made.

"We have to make further successes without putting the blame on others. We must have the courage to firmly correct the steps believed have caused delayed decisions," he said.
PKB, according to him, actually desired for an effort to find a new formulation in building the economy and national development which was too normative, thus providing no alternative solutions.

He was worried that if there was no breakthrough in economic and national development, the public would be disappointed and lost its trust in democracy.
"Ten years for us is enough for an evaluation and reflection," said Muhaimin who is also deputy speaker of the House of Representatives.

It was reported that the new formulation as wished for by PKB was relatively simple, namely consistent in implementing the Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution which had emerged as a new spirit.

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