PDI-P set to fire recalcitrant members

JAKARTA: The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) plans to dismiss about 15 of its members who have joined a splinter group, including those currently sitting in the House of Representatives.

PDI-P cadre Alexander Litaay, also a House of Representatives Commission III deputy, said the party's plenary session next Tuesday would issue the dismissal letters after the members did not respond to the party's advice to quit the splinter camp.

"We've given them around one month to quit the camp and rejoin us, but they have showed no interest at all. We doubt whether reconciliation is possible," he said on Tuesday.

PDI-P slipped into an internal dispute after a group of members, calling themselves the reform movement, contested the party's last congress and demanded the dismissal of certain party executives. -- JP