PKB Shocked Prabowo Suddenly Bisiki Cak Imin About The Coalition's Name Changing To KIM

Gerindra Chairman Prabowo Subianto with PKB Chairman Muhaimin Iskandar (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The National Awakening Party (PKB) admits that it was surprised that the name of the coalition supporting the future presidential candidate (readpres) Prabowo Subianto turned into an Advanced Indonesia Coalition (KIM) suddenly. The reason is, there was no previous discussion to change the name of the Greater Indonesia Awakening Coalition (KKIR) to KIM. PKB Deputy Secretary General Syaiful Huda revealed that the General Chairperson of Muhaimin Iskandar or Cak Imin was suddenly shocked by Prabowo about the plan to announce the new name of the coalition in the PAN anniversary. "At night, we came there. Then Gus Imin was whispered by Mr. Prabowo, it was stated that, this was a short chat, we planned to announce it related to this new coalition. Very bad," said Syaiful Huda, to reporters, Wednesday, August 30. "It's really sad, because previously there was no plan to discuss it. But we can understand it, maybe Mr. Prabowo there is a need to immediately announce this," he continued. With the emergence of a new name of the coalition after the additional support for Golkar and PAN, PKB considers KKIR formed with Gerindra has disbanded. "Yes, it means that the KKIR palace is one year 15 days old," said Huda. Furthermore, the PKB will discuss the name of the new coalition internally to determine its position. Including, the issue of the authority to determine the presidential candidate as the cooperation agreement with Gerindra.

"As stated by Gus Imin, we will bring the new coalition to the DPP meeting later, discuss this new coalition. In other words, General Chair Gus Imin will report it to the DPP, it will be discussed in the DPP meeting," he explained. "We see, because our position is still shocked. We will see what the atmosphere is. But the mandate of the head of the presidential and vice presidential candidates is our sole proposal," added Huda.