The Origins of Panji Gumilang’s Fund
Al-Zaytun Islamic Boarding School and Panji Gumilang are often associated with a regional command of the Indonesian Islamic State (NII) insurgent group. His bank transactions reach into trillions of rupiah.
Ihsan Reliubun
July 10, 2023
AT the end of the official opening of Al-Zaytun Pesantren (Islamic boarding school) on August 27, 1999, Indonesian President Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie spoke with Abdussalam Rasyidi Panji Gumilang, the founder and leader of that school. Habibie asked him where he got the funds for the construction of that modern Islamic school built on 1,200 hectares of land in Mekarjaya village, Indramayu, West Java. Panji Gumilang told Habibie that he got the mo
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