Minister Syamsul Mu'arif rejected

Minister Syamsul Mu'arif rejected

SAMARINDA: The Golkar Party Young Generation (AMPG) East
Kalimantan chapter announced on Monday its rejection of the
candidacy of Syamsul Mu'arif, currently the State Minister of
Communications and Information, for the House of Representatives.

AMPG deputy chairman Amir P. Ali said his organization refused
the candidacy of anyone coming from outside East Kalimantan to
represent the province in the House.

Amir claimed Syamsul, who is also Golkar Central Board deputy
chairman, hailed from South Kalimantan, so he was not familiar
with the situation in East Kalimantan.

"Syamsul was rejected in his own province because he was
considered to have no loyalty. We rejected him, too," Amir told
The Jakarta Post.

He regretted the party's central board decision to nominate
Syamsul as a candidate for the House to represent East
Kalimantan.

Meanwhile, earlier, Syamsul denied any rejection of his
candidacy as member of the House for the South Kalimantan chapter
of Golkar.

"I have a good and close relation with them," Syamsul told the
Post recently.-JP