National Awakening Party

The National Awakening Party ( PKB, of Indonesian Partai Kebangkitan Bangsa ) is an Islamic political party in Indonesia. It was developed by Abdurrahman Wahid, the leader of the group Nahdatul Ulama (NU), founded in 1999.

The National Awakening Party represents no clear ideology. It relies mainly on Muslims in rural Java. However, unlike its predecessor organization NU she does not intend to Islamic Republic.

History

Within the NU had existed since the resignation of Suharto's efforts to create a party. Under the dictatorship, the number of parties was limited to three. Wahid hesitated at first, because he feared that a purely Islamic party would arise. On the occasion of the elections, the idea prevailed, however. The parliamentary elections in 1999 won the PDI -P of Megawati Sukarnoputri, the PKB came to 12%. In the presidential elections in the People's Consultative Assembly, Wahid continued through but with the support of Golkar. Wahid was president until he was deposed in 2001 by the People's Assembly for incompetence and involvement in financial scandals. Vice President Megawati succeeded him in office.

In the parliamentary elections of 2004, the PKB came to 10.5% of the vote and 52 of 550 seats in the Volksvertretungsrat. In the directly conducted presidential elections, the party Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono supported by the Democratic Party, the then president.

In the parliamentary elections on April 9, 2009, PKB was 4.9% ( approximately 5.1 million votes ) and 28 of 560 seats now only seventh power in the republic. In the subsequent presidential election on July 8, it supported again the candidacy of incumbent Yudhoyono with the non-party vice presidential candidate Boediono, the overwhelming majority ( almost 74 million votes according to 60.8 %) were successful.