Jakarta – Three medium-sized political parties – The National Awakening Party (PKB), the United Development Party (PPP) and the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) – have agreed to join hands at the House of Representatives to set the legislative threshold at 3 percent.

The House is currently deliberating a legislative elections bill that aims to make it more difficult for political parties to gain House seats. "We'll continue to make the effort," PKB's House faction head Marwan Ja'far said Sunday, as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.

Marwan said the alliance was currently trying to persuade the National Mandate Party (PAN), the People's Conscience Party (Hanura) and the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) to join them.

Twenty-nine of the 38 political parties competing in the 2009 elections failed to pass the legislative threshold, which was set at 2.5 percent at the time.