SALAHUDDIN Wahid is back from home. After his ambition to be elected vice president failed in the 2004 elections, the younger brother of former President Abdurrahman Wahid was absent from the hustle and bustle of the country’s politics. He chose to return to his village home, taking care of Tebuireng Islamic boarding school in Jombang, East Java.

Eight months ahead of the 2009 presidential elections, Gus Solah—as the bespectacled man is com