Puan Maharani’s trip may shift party alliances

House of Representatives Speaker Puan Maharani speaks to her mother, PDI-P matriarch Megawati Soekarnoputri, during the party’s national working meeting on June 21, 2022 in Jakarta.- Antara

JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network): A political tour carried out by Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) executive Puan Maharani in recent days is expected to change the political map ahead of the 2024 presidential election, as the nation’s largest party seeks coalition partners to extend its rule beyond the reign of President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo.

In her latest stop on her political trip, at the private residence of Gerindra Party leader and presidential nominee Prabowo Subianto in Hambalang, West Java, on Sunday (Sept 4), Puan broached the possibility of forming an alliance with the nation’s second-largest party, a political manoeuvre that analysts say could be game changing for the 2024 election.