THE United Development Party (PPP) plans to form an alliance with a former member of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in the Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam gubernatorial election for the period of 2006-2011. PPP is going to field Ahmad Humam Hamid, while its GAM favorite is Hasdi Abdullah.

The matter was indeed discussed but it has not yet been officially announced by both sides, said a source close to GAM in Aceh to Tempo on the phone last week. As planned