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