FOR Muhammad Jusuf Kalla, managing mosques is a lifelong devotion. The General Chair of the Indonesian Mosque Council (DMI) recounted how he first learned to be a mosque treasurer when he was in junior high school. His father, Haji Kalla, the founder of the Kalla Group business empire, entrusted him with managing the finances of the mosque adjacent to their family home in Makassar, South Sulawesi.

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