Jakarta (Antara Babel) - Professor of state administration law Yusril Ihza Mahendra tweeted on Monday that justice and human rights minister must remain neutral and act in accordance with existing laws while dealing with the Golkar party case.
"The justice and human rights minister should not act out of political considerations and avoid making any decision regarding the party's leadership structure," Yusril Ihza Mahendra wrote on his Twitter account @Yusrilihza_Mhd on Monday.
According to him, the minister should postpone the registrations of new leadership structures submitted by the Golkar party's two rival groups led by Aburizal Bakrie and Agung Laksono.
The Golkar is facing an internal conflict and so efforts should be taken within the party to settle it, probably by forming a team, he noted.
The minister can accept the party's new leadership structure only after it manages to solve the problem internally or after the conflicting groups seek justice in court, he added.
In order to avoid a leadership vacuum in the Golkar, Mahendra suggested that the leaderships appointed during the party's Eighth Congress in Pekanbaru, Riau Province, in 2009, take charge until the internal conflict has been solved.
Aburizal Bakrie, the Golkar Party's chairman for the 2009-2014 term, had been reelected as the party's chairman for the 2014-2019 period during the party's Ninth Congress in Bali on Dec. 2-3, 2014.
The party also dismissed several members, including Agung Laksono, during the congress.
Meanwhile, Agung Laksono has been elected as the Golkar party's chairman during a rival congress held in Jakarta on Dec. 6-8, 2014. He has categorically stated that he did not recognize the Bali congress.
Both Bakrie and Laksono submitted their respective versions of the Golkar's new leadership structures to the justice and human rights minister on Monday for official registration.
The Aburizal Bakrie-led Golkar has joined the Red and White Coalition (KMP) that forms the main opposition in Parliament.
Agung Laksono has indicated he will support the Joko "Jokowi" Widodo government and the pro-government Great Indonesia Coalition (KIH) and pull the party out of the KMP.
