Bengkulu's PKB chief to resign

Bengkulu's PKB chief to resign

BENGKULU, Bengkulu: Ansyori Iskak, who heads the local branch of
the National Awakening Party (PKB), will resign as a member of
the Bengkulu legislative council and take a new post with the
party's splinter group in Jakarta.

"I want to concentrate on my assignment to assist PKB Central
Board Chairman Matori Abdul Djalil," he said on Thursday.

Anshori was appointed as co-chairman of Matori's PKB faction
during its congress in Jakarta on Jan. 14 to Jan. 16.

PKB has split into two factions -- one led by Matori, the
current defense minister, and another by former president
Abdurrahman Wahid and ex-foreign minister Alwi Shihab.

Anshory said he will also quit as chairman of the Bengkulu
branch of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) Muslim organization that gave
birth to the PKB. -- Antara.