A Pro-Palace‘Jazz’ Coalition
Aburizal Bakrie Was appointed to head the joint secretariat of a coalition of pro-government political parties. Yudhoyono once discussed his family business problems, while Hatta Rajasa has been sidelined for failing to control parliament.
May 19, 2010
PRESIDENT Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono invited a number of senior Democrat Party officials to meet in the library of his private residence in early May. Present at the 8pm meeting on that Thursday evening were party general chairman Hadi Utomo, secretary-general Amir Syamsuddin, Democrat faction chairman and State Cooperatives Minister Syarif Hasan and eight House of Representatives’ (DPR) members.
The Democrat leaders sat in a circle, in a room d
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