Febriamy Hutapea & Muninggar Sri Saraswati – Still reeling from having his party at the center of the latest corruption scandal to rock the House of Representatives, the head of the National Mandate Party, or PAN, has attempted to resuscitate PAN's flagging campaign by reaching out to a number of parties.

Top representatives of five of the countries major political parties met at the at the residence of National Mandate Party, or PAN, chairman Sutrisno Bachir on Thursday evening.

National Awakening Party, or PKB, chairman Muhaimin Iskandar was not forthcoming about the details of the meeting in comments on Friday, offering only that he had attended the meeting to discuss "the problems of the nation. "There was nothing special," Muhaimin said. "It was a productive meeting."

The meeting at Sutrisno's house comes only days after he had called the arrest of former PAN member Abdul Hadi Djamal a disaster for the party. Hadi, a member of the House Commission V overseeing transportation, was arrested on Monday by the Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK, with a businessman, a Transportation Ministry official and more than $90,000 in suspected bribe money.

A PAN official, who did not want to be identified, said that Sutrisno had initiated Thursday's meeting to provide the five parties an opportunity to discuss plans to come together in the future. "You can say it was an initial meeting to form a coalition, but no deal has yet been made," he said.

In addition to PAN and the PKB officials, senior party members from the United Development Party, or PPP, the Prosperous Justice Party, or PKS, and the People's Conscience Party, or Hanura, also attended the meeting.

PKB Chairman Muhaimin declined to provide details about a possible coalition, but did say the PKB, which stands to see the more than 10 percent share of the House it currently has decline in April's national legislative election, in principle considered it necessary to form a coalition.

"In general, we share the same vision," Muhaimin said of the PKB and the other parties attending the meeting. "But, PKB will make a decision about [a coalition] after the legislative elections," he said.

While Hanura's Fuad Bawazier, who attended the meeting, declined to comment about a potential coalition between the parties present on Thursday, party chief Wiranto offered his own remarks on the topic of coalitions. "I'll make a new coalition. It will be a surprise," he said, refusing to elaborate further.