United Development Party
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United Development Party
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| Chairman | Muhammad Romahurmuziy |
| Secretary-General | Arsul Sani |
| Founded | January 5, 1973 |
| Headquarters | Jakarta |
| Ideology |
Pancasila Islamic democracy |
| Ballot number | 9 |
| DPR Seats |
39 / 560
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| http://www.ppp.or.id/ | |
The United Development Party (Indonesian: Partai Persatuan Pembangunan (PPP), sometimes translated as Development Unity Party) is a political party in Indonesia. It is an Islamist party led by Suryadharma Ali until 2014, when he was prosecuted for corruption. From 2014 to 2016 the party had been split up in dispute over its chairmanship. In April 2016, Romahurmuziy was declared a new chairman after a reconciliation congress.
Ten political parties participated in the 1971 Legislative Elections, a number that President Suharto considered to be too much. Suharto wished that political parties be reduced to just two or three and that the parties should be grouped based on their programs.
The basis for the merger that would result in the birth of the PPP was a coalition of the four Islamic Parties in the People's Representative Council (DPR) called the United Development Faction. This faction consisted of Nahdatul Ulama (NU), the Muslim Party of Indonesia (Parmusi), the Islamic Association Party of Indonesia (PSII) and the Islamic Educational Movement (Perti).
With encouragement by the Government, officials from all four parties had meetings with each other and after finding some common ground, merged the four Islamic parties in Indonesia into the United Development Party on 5 January 1973. Despite this formal merging of the parties however, internal PPP politics under the Suharto government were dominated by the differing priorities of the original groups that formed the party.
In the mid-1970s, popular support for Suharto's regime was rapidly waning. When Suharto had seized power with a bloody military coup in 1965 and ousted President Sukarno, the Islamic groups had supported Suharto and aided in persecuting his political opponents. But as the regime had become corrupt and even more authoritarian, this alliance began to crumble. As the 1977 Legislative Elections approached, many began to seek for other options to vote for aside from the government-backed Golkar.
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