MAMAN IMANULHAQ
A Pluralist Kiai from Jatiwangi

He is known as the young NU cleric who defends the followers of Ahmadiyah. He wants pluralism to be applied in the legislature.

March 25, 2014

THE maniacal rage of a mob he witnessed in May 1998 remains deeply etched in the memory of 41-year-old Maman Imanulhaq. This founder and manager of the Al-Mizan Pesantren (Islamic boarding school) in Ciborelang village in Jatiwangi, West Java was still powerless to prevent his neighbors from damaging a church as well as destroying the homes and shops owned by ethnic-Chinese residents. That experience became a driving force for Al-Mizan, which bel

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