Yesterday: Fourteen PBNU leadership candidates amid parliamentary threshold controversy

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Several political events have been reported by reporters from the ANTARA News Agency on Tuesday (24 February). Here are some of the selected news stories that are still worth reading this morning.

1. Insantara releases 14 candidates for the position of Chairman of PBNU, including Gus Yahya and Cak Imin The Nahdliyin Nusantara Institute (Insantara) has released a list of 14 names who are likely to be selected as Chairman of the Central Executive Board of Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) at the 35th NU Congress. Read more here
2. Golkar Secretary-General: Make use of Golkar’s DPD offices as a place for the people The Secretary-General of the Golkar Party, Muhammad Sarmuji, encourages the maximum use of the offices of the Regional Executive Boards (DPD) of the Golkar Party throughout Indonesia so that they truly become a place for the people. Read more here
3. Deputy Chairman of the MPR supports the OIC in condemning the statement by the US Ambassador to Israel Deputy Chairman of the MPR RI, Hidayat Nur Wahid, supports the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and its member states, which openly reject and strongly condemn the statement by the United States Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who supports Israel in expanding its territorial control. Read more here
4. KPD: The proposal to raise the parliamentary threshold to 7 per cent ignores democracy The public organisation, Monitor Elections and Democracy (KPD), believes that the proposal from the NasDem Party, which wants the parliamentary threshold (PT) to be raised to 7 per cent, has the potential to ignore democratic ethics. Read more here
5. Observer: A parliamentary threshold of 7 per cent can prevent transactional politics The Executive Director of Indonesia Political Review, Iwan Setiawan, believes that the proposal for a parliamentary threshold of 7 per cent can prevent transactional politics. Read more here Copyright © ANTARA 2026 It is strictly prohibited to take content, crawl or automatically index for AI on this website without written permission from the ANTARA News Agency.