MUHAMMADIYAH
Ki Pamungkas at the Helm
Din Syamsudin is reelected leader of Muhammadiyah as members make sure he won’t take the largest Islamic organization into politics.
July 14, 2010
ON the centenary of its founding, Muhammadiyah reelected Din Syamsuddin as leader of Indonesia’s second-largest socio-religious organization after Nahdlatul Ulama in a congress which ended in Yogyakarta, Central Java, on Wednesday last week. Din was chosen by the 13-member executive board of the organization along with Agung Danarta as his secretary-general.
“I’m happy and sad at the same time,” Din said after the election at the Sportor
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