Jakarta – The National Awakening Party (PKB), at a national working meeting here, nominated Abdurrahman Wahid – popularly known as Gus Dur – as its main presidential candidate, PKB chairman Alwi Shihab said on Saturday.

"There are no alternatives for a presidential candidate from PKB. Gus Dur is our main candidate" Alwi said, adding that the party's vice presidential candidate would be decided at another working conference at a later date.

Alwi said Gus Dur's nomination would stimulate the party to work hard toward his election as the sixth president of Indonesia.

Meanwhile, PKB's Jakarta secretary Fathoni Tamziz said he hoped the vice presidential candidate would be from PKB's inner circle because there were a lot of reliable figures within the party.

Gus Dur, 63, was the fourth Indonesian president after B.J. Habibie.