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Jailani Naro

Djaelani Naro, also known as John Naro (3 January 1929 – 28 October 2000) was an Indonesian politician and prosecutor. He had served as the vice chairman of the People's Representative Council, vice chairman of the Supreme Advisory Council and as the second chairman of the United Development Party.

Naro was born in Palembang, South Sumatra, as the son of Haji Datoek Naro, a former employee of the Agricultural Department from Solok, West Sumatra.

During his youth, he became a member of Student Army in South Sumatra. After the recognition of Indonesia, he went to Yogyakarta to study at the Gajah Mada University. He did not finish his study there and went to Jakarta to study law at the University of Indonesia. He also joined the Jakarta Students Movement and the Indonesian Bachelor Action Forum.

After earning his law degree, Naro applied to work at the State Attorney. After a few years, he became the Chief of Offices of Jakarta High Court and Head of State Attorney of Denpasar in 1962.

Naro entered Parmusi in 1968, during the formation of the party. He became one of the chairman for the matters of the party, representing Jamiatul al-Washliah. He became the chairman of the party after cooperating with Imron Kadir to take over the leadership of the party from Djarnawi Hadikusuma. After becoming the number one person in the party, he expelled Djarnawi from the party. The government responded in 1970 by degrading Naro from chairman to vice chairman and putting H.M.S. Mintaredja in the chairman seat of the party.

Three years later, Parmusi was fused into the United Development Party (PPP), and H.M.S. Mintaredja became the first chairman of the party. Naro followed the path of Mintaredja, and became one of the top ranks of the party leadership.

The first years of the party was marred by internal conflict between the former political parties that had been fused into the party. Naro and others who originally came from the Parmusi, called themselves as the Muslimin Indonesia (MI) faction in the United Development Party. Later on, MI became one of the largest faction in the party, frequently conflicting with NU (Nahdlatul Ulama).

Naro's chance to become the chairman of the party widened after the walk out by the NU faction of the PPP during the 1978 General Session of the People's Consultative Assembly. After the walk out, Mintaredja was displaced as the chairman of PPP by the government through a political manipulation designed by Ali Murtopo, and the government replaced him with Naro. Without any meetings or muktamar, Naro declared himself as the chairman of PPP, supported by the government.

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