MAMAN IMANULHAQ
A Pluralist Kiai from Jatiwangi
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
THE maniacal rage of a mob he witnessed in May 1998 remains deeply etched in the memory of 41-year-old Maman Imanulhaq. This founder and manager of the Al-Mizan Pesantren (Islamic boarding school) in Ciborelang village in Jatiwangi, West Java was still powerless to prevent his neighbors from damaging a church as well as destroying the homes and shops owned by ethnic-Chinese residents. That experience became a driving force for Al-Mizan, which bel
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