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.