When a Revered Figure is Evicted

Tension occurred between supporters of pluralism and the FPI, the result of an incident in Purwakarta.

May 30, 2006

DONT try to intimidate me, I am not afraid. Come here and I shall slap you, said KH Abdurrahman Wahid during a dialog organized in Purwakarta, West Java, last Tuesday. He was responding to the anger of Asep Hamdani, known as the head of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) in that town.

Themed, Pluralism in the Framework of an Independent Society, the inter-religious dialog was staged in the PKK Hall on Jalan R.K. Martadinata. It was initiated by the A

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