The National Awakening Party (PKB) truly has a hard road to tread now if it wants to "go forth without trembling". Its prestige severely hit by the fall of former president Abdurrahman Wahid, its founder, and its former leader Matori Abdul Djalil leading his own dissident wing after his unceremonious dismissal for disloyalty, it could hardly be in worse shape.

Last week, two party congresses were held by the two warring camps in two different ci