REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Vice President Jusuf Kalla attended the ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) national congress from April 9 to 12, 2015 in Bali.
The main agenda of the PDIP congress is to confirm former President Megawati Soekarnoputri at the party's general chairperson for the 2015-2010 period.
Based on an official information from Vice Presidential Secretariat, Vice President Kalla on Thursday attended the opening ceremony of the fourth national congress of PDIP in Bali.
Besides the vice president, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) is also scheduled to attend the opening ceremony of the PDIP congress.
Earlier, PDIP Deputy Secretary-General Ahmad Basarah told newsmen at the party headquarters here on Tuesday that the congress is expected to reelect its current leader Megawati for another five years.
"The confirmation of Ibu (Mme) Megawati to continue her leadership as the PDIP's general chairperson for the next five years will realize the principles of dialog in a democratic process and uphold democracy," Ahmad Basarah said.
He noted that the decision to reelect Megawati as the next PDIP general chairperson was made at a national working meeting in Semarang, Central Java, in September 2014.
"The proposal was then first put forth by president-elect Joko Widodo and was supported by the participants of the meeting," he added.
The proposal was later adopted as one of the meeting's decisions and introduced to all board members at the subdistrict, district, and provincial levels.
As the decision to name former President Megawati, who is also the daughter of Indonesia's first President Soekarno, for the 2015-2020 period has been supported at all levels, the mobilization of support from cadres and organization has finished, he remarked.
According to Basarah, at the congress in Bali, the PDIP will just confirm Megawati's position as the party's next general chairperson.
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