Gus Dur, Try dine together

Gus Dur, Try dine together

GIANYAR, Bali: Former president Abdurrahman Wahid, former vice president Gen. (ret) Try Sutrisno and former defense minister Gen. (ret) Edi Sudrajat had dinner together on Monday at the Ubud Palace, some 40 kilometers northeast of the Bali capital of Denpasar.

Try said the rare meeting had no political significance, and described it as a reunion.

"We all came here at the invitation of the Ubud Palace elders," Try said.

The three public figures all arrived with their wives.

Abdurrahman, or Gus Dur as he is familiarly known, is the chief patron of the National Awakening Party (PKB) and has insisted on running for the presidency a second time. Try is the chief patron of the Nationhood and Unity Party (PKP), which is chaired by Edi.

The two parties have formed a faction in the House of Representatives, but Try denied the meeting discussed a possible coalition for the general and presidential elections next year.

"There is no such agenda," Try said.

Try and Edi were in Bali for the PKP's fourth anniversary celebrations. -- Antara