Hasyim refuses PKB offer<\/p>\n
SURABAYA: The chairman of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the country's
\nlargest Muslim organization, Hasyim Muzadi, rejected on Friday a
\nNational Awakening Party (PKB) claim that he would campaign for
\nthe party in the upcoming general election.<\/p>\n
\"If the NU chairman becomes a campaigner, the NU offices will
\nend up deserted,\" Hasyim told Antara.<\/p>\n
He was responding to a PKB decision to include him on its list
\nof campaigners.<\/p>\n
Besides Hasyim, the NU's East Java chapter chairman Ali
\nMaschan Moesa, several noted NU ulemas, including Idris Marzuki
\nfrom the Lirboyo Islamic boarding school in Kediri, Gus Ali
\nMashuri from Sidoarjo, and former president Abdurrahman Wahid,
\nare also on the list.<\/p>\n
The secretary of the PKB's East Java chapter, Arif Junaidi,
\nadmitted his staff had mistakenly listed Hasyim as a party
\ncampaigner.<\/p>\n
\"It's an administrative mistake. Hasyim will remain neutral,\"
\nJunaidi said.<\/p>\n
However, he claimed the NU would support the PKB as this was
\nmandated by the NU congress held in Lirboyo, Kediri, in 1999. The
\nPKB was founded by NU clerics in 1998. -- Antara<\/p>",
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