IF the Nahdlatul Ulama or NU had listened to the suggestion Kiai Achmad Siddiq made 25 years ago, perhaps the confusion that followed the recent Boyolali congress would have never occurred. The thinker and former NU general chairman suggested the organization go back to being exclusively a religious body. Political participation by the NU, seen as a diversion, in the eyes of Kiai Achmad, had already ended when the NU was absorbed into the Unit