PDI-P set to fire recalcitrant members

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