But if PDIP does not respond to an offer from the Democrat Party, the Golkar Party will be maintained in the coalition
Jakarta (ANTARA News)- The decision about the coalition restructuring and cabinet reshuffle highly depends on the attitude of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), a Democrat Party politician said.

"Democrat Party is still giving two-week time allotment to PDIP to make up its mind to join the coalition and the government," the party`s politician Ulil Abshar Abdalla said in a dialog aired by a private TV station here on Monday.

Other speakers in the dialog were PDIP politician Ganjar Pranowo and Golkar Party central executive board official Indra J Pilliang.

Ulil said political communication between Democrat Party and PDIP has been running well but it was only a matter of "fine tuning."

He added that if the "fine tuning" from PDIP was fast, then the process of coalition restructuring and the cabinet reshuffle would as well run fast.

"But if PDIP does not respond to an offer from the Democrat Party, the Golkar Party will be maintained in the coalition," Ulil said.

Meanwhile, PDIP politician Ganjar Pranowo suggested that Democrat Party immediately decide to restructure the coalition and propose the reshuffle of ministers in the cabinet.

According to Ganjar, the discourse of cabinet reshuffle coalition restructuring has been heralded since a few months ago.

"It has been floating too long without any follow-up," Ganjar said, adding that the people had been fed up with the discourse about coalition rearrangement and cabinet reshuffle.

Ganjar said the discourse about coalition restructuring and cabinet reshuffle was not the desire nor aspiration of PDIP but of the ruling party.

According to him, it was difficult for PDIP to accept the offer from Democrat Party to join the coalition.

And Golkar Politician Indra J Pilliang said Golkar Party was in the coalition at its own desire but at the request of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

"But why Golkar is going to be kicked out from the coalition after joining it to guard the government," Indra asked.
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