When Senior Kiai are no Longer Heeded

Senior clerics wish to see NU return to its Guiding Principles of 1926. Why are they no longer reckoned with?

December 7, 2004

IT was only a few hours before the election of the Rais Am Syuriah and the Tanfidziyah General Chairman of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) in its congress in Donohudan Haj Dormitory, Boyolali, Central Java, would take place. All participants of NU's 31st Congress were tired out following tests of strength, throwing of support and the war of words throughout the event. Toward evening on Wednesday last week, it was gloomy at the five-star Lor Inn Hotel in J

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