Golkar Split on Survey for Indonesian Presidential Candidate

The Golkar Party’s decision to rely on surveys in the selection of chairman Aburizal Bakrie as its 2014 presidential candidate is facing resistance, with some regional chapters threatening to call an extraordinary congress.

Muntasir Hamid, the chairman of Golkar’s Social Network Forum of Regional Chapter Boards, said the group would push for the congress if the party continued insisting on Aburizal as its candidate, a choice that he says lacks unanimous support.