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        "msgid": "alwi-denies-exodus-from-pkb-1447893297",
        "date": "2002-04-09 00:00:00",
        "title": "Alwi denies exodus from PKB",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Alwi denies exodus from PKB JAKARTA: Alwi Shihab, chairman of the National Awakening Party (PKB), rejected a media report that several influential Muslim clerics in Banyuwangi, East Java, had threatened to quit the party. \"So far, they have not officially left the party. The threats were made after a misunderstanding, where they thought that their dissatisfaction had been ignored by the central board of the party,\" Alwi said, as quoted by Antara on Monday.",
        "content": "<p>Alwi denies exodus from PKB<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA: Alwi Shihab, chairman of the National Awakening Party<br>\n(PKB), rejected a media report that several influential Muslim<br>\nclerics in Banyuwangi, East Java, had threatened to quit the<br>\nparty.<\/p>\n<p>\"So far, they have not officially left the party. The threats<br>\nwere made after a misunderstanding, where they thought that their<br>\ndissatisfaction had been ignored by the central board of the<br>\nparty,\" Alwi said, as quoted by Antara on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Alwi's statement was made following the political threat by 24<br>\nMuslim clerics in Banyuwangi, East Java, who were demanding that<br>\nthe party's central board annul its approval for the newly<br>\ninstalled PKB's Banyuwangi branch executives.<\/p>\n<p>The Muslim clerics considered the approval mechanism to be<br>\nunfair and one-sided, and that the central board should have<br>\nwithheld its approval.<\/p>\n<p>Alwi said the executives of the party's central board were now<br>\ninvestigating the case, including by visiting the Muslim clerics<br>\nto listen to their perspective over the case.<\/p>\n<p>The move was taken to get accurate information on the case,<br>\nclaimed Alwi. -- Antara<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/alwi-denies-exodus-from-pkb-1447893297",
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