Jakarta – The chairman of the National Awakening Party (PKB), who is also the manpower and transmigration minister, Muhaimin Iskandar, has submitted a letter to the Law and Human Rights Ministry, requesting that it not approve PKB's splinter group becoming a political party.

The letter, which was made available to The Jakarta Post on Tuesday, was dated Aug. 25 and signed by Muhaimin and PKB secretary-general Imam Nahrawi. In the letter, Muhaimin asks the ministry "to reject the proposal of the National Archipelago Prosperity Party [PKBN]".

The PKBN is a splinter group of the PKB and was founded by Zannuba Arifah Chafsoh "Yenny" Wahid, the daughter of Indonesia's fourth president Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid.

The logo and the name of Yenny's party "have so many similarities to those of the PKB, which is against the 2011 Political Party Law," the letter states. Yenny said the letter was "merely" part of Muhaimin's moves to "prevent the PKBN from becoming a political party".