A Family Dispute

May 13, 2008

Julia Suryakusuma

  • Julia Suryakusuma is the author of “Sex, Power and Nation”. She can be reached on jsuryakusuma@gmail.

    I come from a Sundanese Muslim family, with radical and heretical origins.

    My Aki (grandfather) and ten of his thirteen siblings were mainstream Sunnis like Muhammadiyah, NU and the vast majority of Muslims in Indonesia. But three ­others were members of Ahmadiyah, the now-notorious sect established in 1889 in the Punja

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