Tonight, Golkar's Plenary Meeting Decides To Replace Azis Syamsuddin, Who's Airlangga's Choice?

Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, Airlangga Hartarto. (Photo: Doc. Coordinating Ministry for the Economy)

JAKARTA - The Golkar Party will hold a plenary meeting to determine the name of the replacement for Azis Syamsuddin as Deputy Speaker of the Indonesian House of Representatives tonight.

"Tonight is the plenary meeting of the Golkar Party's DPP to decide on the candidate appointed by the general chairman Airlangga Hartarto," said Golkar Party DPP Legal Head Adies Kadir at the DPR Building, Monday, September 27. He said the plenary meeting began at 19.30 WIB at the Golkar Party DPP Office, Slipi, West Jakarta. It is known that the names that have strengthened are the Secretary General of the Golkar Party, Lodewijk F. Paulus and the head of the faction, Kahar Muzakir. Adies also admitted that the name of the candidate to replace Azis was one of the senior Golkar Party cadres.

"Indeed, the most senior one this morning, I told you there was Mr. Lodewijk, there was Mr. Kahar Muzakir," said Adies.

However, he said, the name of the candidate to replace Azis Syamsuddin is in the general chairman's pocket.

"My feeling has been pocketed by the general chairman, so it's only up to tonight that it will be conveyed in the plenary meeting," said the Deputy Chairman of Commission III of the DPR RI.