PKB denies Gus Dur rumor

PKB denies Gus Dur rumor

BANDAR LAMPUNG, Lampung: The National Awakening Party (PKB) denies that former president Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid has embraced Christianity.

"It is not true. It is impossible that a man like Gus Dur has been baptized," PKB Deputy Chairman Muhaimin Iskandar said here on Tuesday.

He was commenting on a video compact disk (VCD), depicting a man thought to be the former president undergoing baptism. Copies of the VCD are being circulated in West Java and South Kalimantan.

According to him, the footage was filmed in a church, after Gus Dur had addressed Christian scholars.

He requested that those with copies of the VCD not disseminate it to other provinces in order to avoid misinterpretation and the a possible negative impact to Gus Dur and PKB.

Gus Dur is former chairman of Indonesian largest Muslim organization Nadhlatul Ulama and a patron of PKB. --Antara