Fahmi to attend Golkar congress

JAKARTA: Despite a court ruling upholding his dismissal from the Golkar Party, Fahmi Idris said he would attend the party congress in Bali next month.

"I will go to the event because the organizational statute stipulates that the congress can serve as a forum for me to defend myself," he said on Thursday.

Fahmi, the manpower and transmigration minister, admitted he had not been invited to the congress.

Golkar revoked Fahmi's and Marzuki Darusman's party membership for challenging its decision to back former president Megawati Soekarnoputri and Hasyim Muzadi in the Sept. 20 election runoff. -- Antara