PPP cadres reject external sitting positions of ketum: the leader must be from below

Jakarta – Before the United Development Party (PPP) conference, internal political tensions are increasingly heated. One of the hottest issues is the rise of figures from outside the party that have ambitions to win the chairman of the General Chairman. One of the PPP cadres Arbi Irawan emphasized that PPP was open to anyone who wants to join and fight together. However, he provided a permanent note and led the PPP, must go through a revival process, and not come suddenly and then demanded the chairman of the leadership. “Please go outside the PPP. We never refuse anyone who wants to join. But come as a framework, fight from below, do not want to be the general chairman immediately,” Arbi said Tuesday (9/16). Browse to continue the content, this statement emerged after the statement by Agus Suparmanto, a framework of the National Awakening Party (PKB), who said he was ready to progress as a candidate for the General Chairman of PPP. The statement caused a strong response from PPP cadres because it was considered the Marwah party, as if PPP did not have quality cadres to lead. According to Arbi, PPP is a framework party with a long history of the struggle of the Ulama. If the leadership is left to the immediate figure without a profound understanding of the party, the ideology and legacy of the PPP struggle with faded will be threatened. “PPP is not a loan party. This party is built from prayers, tears and sweat of the scholars. We are open to someone, but leadership cannot be reached by shortcuts,” he said. Arbi added that the party still needs rebirth, including from new figures, but that he had to undergo a clear cadre process. “PPP leaders must be born of the womb of struggle, and do not come suddenly because of the popularity or capital power. We want leaders who understand party values,” he explained. He also called on all cadres to maintain the PPP Marwah before the congress. “Get up PPP cadres, don’t let this party be traded! PPP is a legacy of scholars for the people, and should be led by people who really struggle in it,” he explained. It is predicted that the PPP conference is one of the hottest in the history of the party with the Kaaba. In addition to the struggle for the chairman of the chairman, Congress will also determine the direction of the party’s policy facing the ever -harder national political competition. Political observers judge, the fixed attitude of PPP cadres towards external figures shows resistance to current political pragmatism, as well as the desire to maintain the identity of the PPP as an ideological party born of the womb of the Islamic struggle. Also look at the Dudung video is not interested in being PPP chairman: I don’t want to be political (Akn/Ega)