Ezra Sihite – Less than a week after the duo of Joko Widodo and Basuki Tjahaja Purnama won the gubernatorial election in Jakarta, the political parties backing them are already bickering with each other.

The winning pair ran on a ticket jointly backed by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra). PDI-P backed Joko while Basuki had the support of Gerindra.

However, Ahmad Basarah, the deputy secretary general of the PDI-P, on Wednesday aired discontent over Gerindra's contribution to ensuring the pair's victory. "The cooperation with Gerindra was not effective. What was massive was still the PDI-P machinery," Ahmad said.

He said each party's cadres, in the national legislature and regional governments, were given areas in which to raise support for Joko and Basuki during the election campaign, adding that he himself had been assigned the Tambora area of West Jakarta.

He said that far-flung PDI-P cadres such as Agustin Teras Narang, the governor of Central Kalimantan and Cornelius, the governor of West Kalimantan, both came to Jakarta to meet with residents and campaign for the pair. He faulted Gerindra for not mounting a similar effort.

Despite the inadequate contribution, Ahmad said, Gerindra appeared to be banking on the victory to promote its top cadre, founder Prabowo Subianto, as a potential presidential candidate in 2014.

Ahmad also bemoaned the results of a recent survey by Saiful Mujani Research and Consulting, which showed that Prabowo and Gerindra had benefited more from the Jakarta election.

He claimed that as the party that had worked hardest to ensure victory for the gubernatorial pair, it should have been PDI-P that reaped more benefit. "The party will evaluate the cooperative arrangement between PDI-P and Gerindra, or with any other political party," he said.