Worried That There Will Be Frictions, PBNU Asks PKB To Cancel The Congress In Bali

Chairman of the National Awakening Party or PKB Muhaimin Iskandar alias Cak Imin. (Photo: Nailin/VOI)

Chairman of PBNU Habib Umarsyah, asked the National Awakening Party (PKB) to cancel the implementation of the congress in Bali which is planned to take place on August 24-25. Given the plan to implement the PKB Congress, a number of elements of Balinese society have rejected it.

"We are worried that if forced later there will be friction between elements of society," said Habib Umarsyah in Jakarta, Saturday, August 24. For information, the rejection of the implementation of the PKB ke VI Congress came from the Bali Tourism Youth Axis, Balinese Culturalists, and Balinese Youth yesterday. A number of elements of the Balinese people consider the implementation of the PKB Congress to disrupt security in Bali.

There are three points of their statement of attitude. First, urge the local government and the Bali Regional Police to act and be firm on all forms of possibility that have the potential to disrupt Bali's economic stability as a national tourism center.

Second, urge the head of the regional government and the head of the Bali regional police on all possibilities that have the potential to threaten the stability of the security and peaceful situation of the Balinese people.

Third, urge the head of the regional government and the Bali regional police to cancel and revoke the permit for the implementation of the PKB Congress which will be held on 24-25: August 2024 at the Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center.

Therefore, Habib Umarsyah asked the PKB elites to hear the aspirations of the Balinese people and cancel the implementation of the congress on the Island of the Gods. I am afraid that if forced, there will be friction between elements of society," he said. Previously, the Coordinator of the Bali Tourism Youth Axis, Anak Agung Bramantara, assessed that the implementation of the PKB congress in Bali was not appropriate. Because currently Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) through its wings organization is also carrying out activities in Bali. "It would be better for them to solve their internal problems first," he said in Nusa Dua, Bali, yesterday.