PKB mulls changing party structure

PKB mulls changing party structure

JAKARTA: The National Awakening Party (PKB) plans to
reorganize its structure with the aim of conceding a very
powerful position for its next leader, a party executive said on
Tuesday.

Head of the PKB's organization and social division Misbah
Hidayat said such a structure would be proposed during the
party's congress next month in Semarang, Central Java, to reform
the party following an internal row between its two main bodies
-- Syuro (supervisory) and Tanfidziyah (executive).

Under the proposed change, the PKB will only select one
leader, who will then have full authority to elect other party
board members including the vice leader and secretary-general, as
well as the heads of the Syuro and Tanfidziyah bodies.

Misbah said that during the congress, the PKB would likely
confer the leadership to party founder and former president
Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid, who is considered to be the only
figure who could reunite one of the country's biggest parties.
--JP