Unfurling Flags and Beating Drums
From its inception the Indonesian Mujahidin Council has been committed to the struggle of introducing Islamic legal tenets in national political life. What is its strategy?
December 24, 2002
THE walls of the Gedung Wanitatama, an impressive building for a city the size of Yogyakarta, seemed to be crumbling as they resounded with the echoes of the repeated religious chants glorifying Almighty God. This occurred in a meeting of adherents one day in early August two years ago. Each and every speaker who took to the rostrum was given a resounding welcome. There was a distinct air of togetherness pervading the "Congress of the Indonesian M...