Raising his voice so all could hear, kyai (Moslem cleric) Alawy Muhammad, a respected Islamic leader in his community of East Java, proclaimed to the administrators of the at Torriqi Islamic boarding school in Sampang, Madura as well as to the reporters interviewing him: "It is not that I support Pak Nono, but I am instructing that all Madurese in Jakarta vote for Nono."

The call voiced out by this elder Madurese kyai and noted figure of the United