CHAIRMAN of the Indonesian Mujahidin Council Lajnah Tanfidziyah, 61-year-old Irfan Awwas, still remembers his meeting with Khilafatul Muslimin’s highest leader, Abdul Qadir Hasan Baraja, in January 1997. Abdul Qadir, now 77 years old, was then incarcerated at the Kalisosok Prison in Surabaya, East Java.

Abdul Qadir handed Irfan a piece of paper containing a manifesto urging for public figures to uphold Islamic sharia through a caliphate sy