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GOLKAR EXPECTING NATIONAL LEADERSHIP SUCCESSION ONCE EVERY FIVE YEARS
Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Dec 5 (ANTARA) - The Golkar Party expects succession or a change in the national leadership in Indonesia to happen once every five years, its chairman, Aburizal Bakrie, said.
"We expect succession in Indonesia's national leadership to happen once every five years," he said replying to ANTARA after opening a party regional leadership meeting here Friday night.
He said Golkar, which is the country's second largest party after the Democrat Party, was not expecting President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to be impeached over the Bank Century case.
The Bank Century case evolves around the government's decision last year to inject Rp6.7 trillion into the bank to prevent it from collapsing but many quarters believe the bailout was unlawful and had caused the state to suffer a huge potential financial loss.
"The important thing now is how the case can be resolved conclusively," Aburizal said.
Aburizal said impeachment of the president could cause political destabilization and economic turmoil which would in the end only hurt the people.
But the former coordinating minister for people's welfare in President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's first-term cabinet also said the Bank Century case had to be uncovered without any reserve.
"We must prove to the people that the case can be settled well. What we want is settlement of the case and not an impeachment move against the president," he said.
Aburizal said Golkar was one of the supporters of the exercise of the House of Representatives (DPR)'s right of inquiry for settling the case.
The party's faction member in the DPR, Idrus Marham, was on Friday night elected as the chairman of the House special committee that would investigate the Bank Century case.
"It is clear as one of the supporters of the implementation of the right our aim is to clarify the national problem, what is the problem of Bank Century so that all people would know it," he said.
He said Golkar had decided to support the government and "therefore we hope the government would be given an opportunity to carry out the development program well without any obstacle or public suspicion just because of the Bank Century case."
In view of that he hoped the case should be publicly disclosed transparently. "We will try to straighten out what is considered not right," he said.
Golkar lost to President Yudhoyono's Democrat Party in the legislative election early this year while its presidential candidate, Jusuf Kalla, also lost to Yudhoyono in the race last July. ***
"We expect succession in Indonesia's national leadership to happen once every five years," he said replying to ANTARA after opening a party regional leadership meeting here Friday night.
He said Golkar, which is the country's second largest party after the Democrat Party, was not expecting President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to be impeached over the Bank Century case.
The Bank Century case evolves around the government's decision last year to inject Rp6.7 trillion into the bank to prevent it from collapsing but many quarters believe the bailout was unlawful and had caused the state to suffer a huge potential financial loss.
"The important thing now is how the case can be resolved conclusively," Aburizal said.
Aburizal said impeachment of the president could cause political destabilization and economic turmoil which would in the end only hurt the people.
But the former coordinating minister for people's welfare in President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's first-term cabinet also said the Bank Century case had to be uncovered without any reserve.
"We must prove to the people that the case can be settled well. What we want is settlement of the case and not an impeachment move against the president," he said.
Aburizal said Golkar was one of the supporters of the exercise of the House of Representatives (DPR)'s right of inquiry for settling the case.
The party's faction member in the DPR, Idrus Marham, was on Friday night elected as the chairman of the House special committee that would investigate the Bank Century case.
"It is clear as one of the supporters of the implementation of the right our aim is to clarify the national problem, what is the problem of Bank Century so that all people would know it," he said.
He said Golkar had decided to support the government and "therefore we hope the government would be given an opportunity to carry out the development program well without any obstacle or public suspicion just because of the Bank Century case."
In view of that he hoped the case should be publicly disclosed transparently. "We will try to straighten out what is considered not right," he said.
Golkar lost to President Yudhoyono's Democrat Party in the legislative election early this year while its presidential candidate, Jusuf Kalla, also lost to Yudhoyono in the race last July. ***
