Indonesia's Golkar Party has appointed Bambang Soesatyo as parliamentary speaker, after the previous speaker was indicted in a $US170 million ($A238 million) corruption scandal late last year, the party's secretary general Muhammad Sarmuji said on Monday.
Golkar, which is a member of President Joko Widodo's ruling coalition, has come under pressure to elect a speaker to clean up the party's image and improve the standing of parliament, long regarded by Indonesians as riddled with entrenched corruption.
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