Zulfa Mustofa hopes the uncertainty of the PBNU leadership chair will end

Jakarta – Acting (Pj) chairman of PBNU, Zulfa Mustofa, hopes that the plenary meeting to determine the leader of PBNU can end the conflict that has surfaced in public recently. He wants the uncertainty of leadership at PBNU to end. “I hope that with my appointment in this plenary forum as acting general chairman, this uncertainty will be resolved,” Zulfa said after the plenary meeting at the Sultan Hotel, Senayan, Central Jakarta, on Tuesday (9/12/2025). Zulfa said that the plenary meeting was attended by important PBNU figures. He assessed that decision-making was carried out carefully considering many things. Scroll to continue content “We see here all the big figures present. Our Rais Aam is accompanied by two Deputy Rais Aam. He is, I call him the very big ‘Tri Tunggal’, who until tonight is very determined to decide what he decides. Then I was appointed acting general chairman,” said Zulfa. “We were also present here, as the press colleagues saw, saw: the daughter of the founder of Nahdlatul Ulama was present… Of course everyone in the audience could see, there were so many press colleagues, I cannot name them one by one,” he continued. He said every party in PBNU wants unity. He promised to exercise leadership carefully. “It shows, apart from the PWNU-PWNU who are in front here, that we are all determined, really determined to be united. To continue the service of Jam’iyah in its second century,” Zulfa said. “I will, I promise, I will carry out this mandate as fairly as possible, as clean as possible, as sincere as possible and as polite as possible to maintain civility as a santri. Because Tanfidziyah is a santri. I am nothing, I am a santri of Rais Aam, and also a PBNU Syuriyah santri,” he added. (dwr/wnv)