Ambon – One year after the establishment of the Great Indonesia Movement Party, or Gerindra, the party is already claiming 10 million members and has high hopes for adding another five million before the month's end, the party said over the weekend.

Taslim Aziz, Gerindra's deputy secretary general, said his party had already issued its 1-millionth ID card. "Now we just want to add another five million members, and we've set the end of February as a deadline," he said.

Taslim said Prabowo Subianto, the former Army special forces chief and onetime son-in-law of former President Suharto, was now Gerindra's undisputed candidate for president.

The party has not yet decided on the possibility of merging with other parties, Taslim said, but instead was concentrating on increasing members and supporters in a bid to win 25 percent of the House of Representatives' seats in the April 9 legislative elections.

Achieving the threshold would qualify it to formally nominate a candidate for the July presidential election.

Taslim said he was optimistic Gerindra would hit the 25 percent mark based on the party's popularity at the village level. "We have mapped out a strategy to the level of polling stations to enable us to maintain our strength to nominate Prabowo," he said.