I’d like to comment on the article in the TEMPO October 16-22 edition, titled Matori: First Useful, Later Dumped. In the article, there was the sentence, "… He reduced the party’s general chairman, Matori Abdul Djalil, to a mere onlooker. ‘Let Arifin Junaidi lead the meeting,’ a member of the party’s executive board quoted the President as saying."

In the tradition of the National Awakening Party (PKB), as well