The `Concord' Kiai from Rembang
The son of a renowned kiai, a simple figure skilled in reconciling disputing parties, has passed away.
August 31, 2004
AFTER the night prayer, he breathed his last. And as we know, the late Kiai Cholil Bisri had determined where he would spend his final days: at his home in Leteh village, Rembang. Last Tuesday, under the hot midday sun, thousands of religious students joined the funeral procession to the family burial plot in Kabongan Kidul village. This Deputy Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) was buried next to the grave of his father, K.H
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