Muhaimin looks set to take PKB's top post

Muhaimin Iskandar, a deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, is set to take over leadership of the National Awakening Party (PKB).

Muhaimin was the lone candidate when the election began at 11 p.m. in Semarang, Central Java, where the party is holding a national congress. Another candidate, former defense minister Mahfud MD, pulled out of the election. Meanwhile, PKB cofounder and former president Abdurrahman Wahid was named the chairman of the party's consultative board. --JP