Monday, February 16, 2009

Afraid of Politization, Vice President Jusuf Kalla cancelled Press Conference

The arrival of Vice President Jusuf Kalla from a trip to USA and Europe was delayed for 4 days. His arrival yesterday, Sunday February 14, 2009 at Jakarta International Airport at 06:00 a.m. was greeted by Golkar Party executives. Originally he was scheduled to give interviews to reporters that had been waiting his arrival for some time, but Mr. Jusuf Kalla cancelled the interview to avoid possible politization of the event by the press.

He said that he must report to President SBY on the result of his foreign trip to USA and Europe before talking to the Indonesian press. His delayed arrival coincided with the ending of Golkar Party Convention held a few days ago, and was suspected as a tactics to avoid announcing Golkar Party Presidential Candidate for the coming election.

In another situation, Golkar Party had released a TV advertising showing that Golkar Leadership as a solid team to face the coming election. Former Golkar Chief Akbar Tanjung commented that as for the Party's goals, all Golkar executives had the same opinion, however, as far as the implementation of the goals, they may differed.

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