Jakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), a major Islamic party, is not interested in joining an alliance of Islamic parties, a party executive, Mahfudz Siddiq, said in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, on Sunday.

"Strengthening a coalition of Islamic political parties tends to maintain latent conflict (among Islamic parties) and would not bring benefits to the country in the future," he told journalists, as quoted by Antara.

Siddiq said that Islamic parties, even if they all united together, would only garner around 40 percent of total votes.

He said the PKS would continue to maintain its image as a "clean and caring" party, and next year would add "professional" to its list of official attributes. Thus, the PKS would be known as a "clean, caring and professional" party, he said.

Siddiq noted that PKS aims to become the third biggest party in Indonesia.

Various surveys show that PKS currently sits on the fourth place after Golkar, PDI-P and Democratic Party. "During the next three months, we will pull down one of those three to become number four," he said. (rid)