Young Natsir's steps on the Political Ladder
Cak Nur, who up till now has been known only as a thinker, has clearly been politically enlightened from the start. Now higher steps have been placed on the political ladder. Is there no way back?
May 6, 2003
The young Nurcholish Madjid initially had ambitions to be a locomotive engineer. Nevertheless, in adulthood the boy born in Jombang, East Java, on March, 17, 1939, has instead become an engineering candidate in another form: the locomotive driver for the carriage of the nation. This has been the case at least since last Monday, when the head of the Paramadina Foundation declared he was prepared to be a candidate in the country's coming
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