United Development Party

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Template:Politics of Indonesia The United Development Party (PPP) (Indonesian: Partai Persatuan Pembangunan; also sometimes translated as Development Unity Party) is a political party in Indonesia. It is seen as a moderate Islamic party, and is led by Hamzah Haz, who served as Vice President of Indonesia from 2001 to 2004. In the People's Representative Council (DPR), PPP holds 58 of 550 seats, making it the third-largest party in the legislature, and the largest Islamic party.

PPP was created in 1973 under former President Suharto's New Order government, when all political parties aside from the President's Golkar party were required to merge into two approved opposition parties. PPP was thus formed as a loose coalition of the four major Islamic parties in the country at the time, Nahdatul Ulama, Muslim Party of Indonesia (PMI), the Islamic Association Party of Indonesia and the Islamic Educational Movement. The first two have long been the dominant players in the PPP. Despite this formal merging of the parties, internal PPP politics under the Suharto government were dominated by the differing priorities of the original groups that formed the party.

It received 8.1 percent of the vote in the 2004 legislative elections, a decrease from its 10.7 percent share of the vote in 1999, but enough to retain its place as the third-best represented party in the legislature, behind Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle (PDI-P) and Golkar.

Hamzah Haz, presidential candidate, received 3.1 percent of the vote in the 2004 presidential election.

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