NU CONGRESS
Tensions at the Top

Kiai Sahal Mahfudz is reelected general chairman at the 32nd NU Congress in Makassar. The executive board is led by Said Aqil Siradj. Alleged Palace interference and money politics are rife.

March 31, 2010

PRAISES to the Prophet were echoing in the Haji Sudiang Haj Dormitory auditorium, Makassar, Saturday last week when Kiai (Muslim cleric) Haji Sahal Mahfudz was eventually elected Rais Am (General Chairman) of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) Central Executive Board. Leader of the Maslakul Huda Pesantren (Islamic boarding school), Pati, Central Java, also general chairman of the central Indonesian Ulamas Council (MUI), was entrusted by the congress partic

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