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Thursday, April 26, 2012 20:51 PM
Having failed to get reelected in the Aceh gubernatorial election
on April 9, Irwandi Yusuf has established a new political party.
The National Aceh Party (PNA), which was registered on Tuesday, is chaired by Irwansyah, known as Teungku Muksalmina.
He went to the Law and Human Rights Ministry office in Banda Aceh with several members of Irwandi’s campaign team.
Among them were Ligadinsyah, Muharram, Amin bin Ahmad Marzuki, Lukman Age and Thamren Ananda, but not Irwandi himself.
“The newly born National Aceh Party will serve as the vehicle of aspiration and unity for the Aceh people, particularly for those who adhere to practical politics as part of democracy,” Irwansyah said.
Pending verification by the ministry, the party appeared to have met the necessary requirements with the establishment of regional boards being pursued in the 23 regencies across the province.
Through his new political vehicle, Irwandi, the former intelligence chief for the now-defunct Free Aceh Movement (GAM) separatist group, hopes for better results than those in the recent election. The election was won by bitter rival and former GAM chief Zaini Abdullah by a wide margin of votes.
Zaini and running mate Muzakir Manaf ran in the poll as candidates from the Aceh Party, a local political party that Irwandi also belonged to at the start of his governorship term.
Irwandi contested this year’s poll as an independent candidate however following a rift within the Aceh Party that saw the breakaway of some of the party’s board members to support Irwandi during the occasionally violent campaign.
Apart from establishing the new party, Irwandi has filed a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court over the results of the election, claiming that the poll had been marred by fraud and intimidation and demanding the results be annulled.
Irwansyah denied suggestions that the establishment of the National Aceh Party had been motivated by former GAM elites’ disappointment at the poll’s results.
“Indeed, many National Aceh Party’s leaders are former GAM combatants expelled from the Aceh Party and the KPA,” he said. The KPA refers to the Aceh Transitional Committee, formed in the wake of the 2005 Helsinki peace agreement between GAM and Jakarta.
The PNA’s establishment has been welcomed by one observer as helping to nurture democracy in Aceh.
“Hopefully, it can create competitiveness in Aceh’s political landscape with a framework to foster the message of peace mandated in the Helsinki agreement and Aceh’s administrative bylaws,” Taufik Abdullah, a lecturer at Malikul Saleh University said.
The PNA, he said, should be able to complement the Aceh Party, especially when the latter experiences political setbacks.
The National Aceh Party (PNA), which was registered on Tuesday, is chaired by Irwansyah, known as Teungku Muksalmina.
He went to the Law and Human Rights Ministry office in Banda Aceh with several members of Irwandi’s campaign team.
Among them were Ligadinsyah, Muharram, Amin bin Ahmad Marzuki, Lukman Age and Thamren Ananda, but not Irwandi himself.
“The newly born National Aceh Party will serve as the vehicle of aspiration and unity for the Aceh people, particularly for those who adhere to practical politics as part of democracy,” Irwansyah said.
Pending verification by the ministry, the party appeared to have met the necessary requirements with the establishment of regional boards being pursued in the 23 regencies across the province.
Through his new political vehicle, Irwandi, the former intelligence chief for the now-defunct Free Aceh Movement (GAM) separatist group, hopes for better results than those in the recent election. The election was won by bitter rival and former GAM chief Zaini Abdullah by a wide margin of votes.
Zaini and running mate Muzakir Manaf ran in the poll as candidates from the Aceh Party, a local political party that Irwandi also belonged to at the start of his governorship term.
Irwandi contested this year’s poll as an independent candidate however following a rift within the Aceh Party that saw the breakaway of some of the party’s board members to support Irwandi during the occasionally violent campaign.
Apart from establishing the new party, Irwandi has filed a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court over the results of the election, claiming that the poll had been marred by fraud and intimidation and demanding the results be annulled.
Irwansyah denied suggestions that the establishment of the National Aceh Party had been motivated by former GAM elites’ disappointment at the poll’s results.
“Indeed, many National Aceh Party’s leaders are former GAM combatants expelled from the Aceh Party and the KPA,” he said. The KPA refers to the Aceh Transitional Committee, formed in the wake of the 2005 Helsinki peace agreement between GAM and Jakarta.
The PNA’s establishment has been welcomed by one observer as helping to nurture democracy in Aceh.
“Hopefully, it can create competitiveness in Aceh’s political landscape with a framework to foster the message of peace mandated in the Helsinki agreement and Aceh’s administrative bylaws,” Taufik Abdullah, a lecturer at Malikul Saleh University said.
The PNA, he said, should be able to complement the Aceh Party, especially when the latter experiences political setbacks.
Sumber : http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/04/25/irwandi-ups-his-political-ante-forming-national-aceh-party.html
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