WHILE going to pay his respects at the Al-Falak pesantren (Islamic boarding school) in Pagentongan, Bogor, West Java, in the middle of January 2019, Ma’ruf Amin asked the whereabouts of the river in the compound. The former authoritative leader of the Nahdlatul Ulama Central Body recalled the river flowed near the grave of Tubagus Muhammad Falak bin Abbas, the founder of the school. “I often met with him before he passed away in