Hasyim avoids cash, donates cow

Hasyim avoids cash, donates cow

SURABAYA: The chairman of the country's largest Muslim
organization, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), has donated a cow to the East
Java branch of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS).

Head of PKS East Java Rofi Munawar said on Monday that the
donation showed NU's support for the party's poverty platform in
the upcoming elections.

"God willing, the elections will produce clean and empathic
leaders who will lead this nation to prosperity," Rofi said.

Unlike the National Awakening Party, the United Development
Party and the Nahdlatul Umat Party, the PKS is not affiliated
with the NU.

NU chairman Hasyim Muzadi has been touted as a candidate in
the July 5 presidential election, but he has not been nominated
by any of the 24 contesting parties. -- Antara