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Conflict Over Concession

Monday, December 1, 2025

Mines unite, and mines also divide. The conflict among the PBNU elite over the coal mining concession.

Nahdliyin attend the 82nd anniversary commemoration of Nahdlatul Ulama at Gelora Bung Karno, Jakarta, February 3, 2008. Doc Tempo/Wahyu Setiawan. tempo : 177078250714.

THERE were countless ideas for a cover illustration to capture the clash among top leaders of the Nahdlatul Ulama Central Board (PBNU), sparked by the award of a coal mining concession. Ironic, satirical, bitter—every angle could fit.

The conflict shows how figures long regarded as spiritual guides ended up brawling and stripping each other of posts in an Islamic organization over an environmentally destructive prize, like children fi

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