KIAI (Islamic cleric) Hasyim Muzadi has two big events this month. On Saturday last week, the General Chairman of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) gave away his fifth daughter Laily Abidah at the Al Hikam Pondok Pesantren (Islamic boarding school) complex in Malang, East Java. From Monday to Saturday next week the man born in Tuban 66 years ago will do the job of hosting the NU general assembly (muktamar).

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