As maneuvers between political parties to form coalitions for the presidential elections heat up, elites of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) are divided. The source of the division has been the emergence of Abdullah Makhmud Hendropriyono as a candidate for chairman of Joko Widodo's presidential campaign team. "It became a hot topic of discussion in our BlackBerry Group," a PDI-P politician said last week.

Those against Hendro cit