RIGHT after dusk, chanting echoed from the office of the National Awakening Party (PKB) in Jalan Sukabumi, Menteng, Jakarta, last Tuesday. General Chairman Muhaimin Iskandar took the microphone as the event ended. He told the crowd of the final message of Gus Dur—his uncle who was also head of the PKB Advisory Board and one of the party’s founders—before he passed away.

The final message Muhaimin referred to was a text message on his hand