JakartaPost-May 8, 2025

The 2024 presidential election could see four party tickets on the ballot, after the Golkar Party said it planned to set up a new electoral alliance if political parties in the ruling coalition failed to establish a unified alliance against the opposition. Golkar, along with the National Mandate Party (PAN), has yet to endorse any of the three frontrunners in the electability surveys of several credible pollsters: Ganjar Pranowo, Prabowo Subianto and Anies Baswedan. Ganjar has been nominated by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), with backing from the United Development Party (PPP). Meanwhile, Prabowo is backed by the Gerindra Party and the National Awakening Party (PKB), and Anies has the support of the NasDem Party, the Democratic Party and the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS). Golkar, the country’s oldest and second-largest political party, has been in talks with Gerindra and the PKB in an attempt to pair Prabowo with its chairman, Airlangga Hartarto. Read more at:
https://www.thejakartapost.com/paper/2023/05/08/golkar-mulls-over-possible-fourth-2024-alliance.html.