A house divided

PPP's internal discord has ended peacefully. But support for Prabowo has eroded.

April 29, 2014

Suryadharma Ali's face tensed as he listened to Maimoen Zubair, who was sitting next to him, read out the United Development Party's (PPP) reconciliation ruling on recent discord within the party. Maimoen, 86, owner of Rembang's Al-Anwar Islamic Boarding School, had drawn up the ruling an hour earlier in his capacity as chairperson of the party's Sharia (Islamic Law) Council on Tuesday last week. "This ruling puts an end to differences that have prove

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