A Young Leader at Tebuireng
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
IT was the end of April 1942. Japanese occupation forces had taken over the Tebuireng Islamic Boarding School in Jombang, East Java. The Dai Nippon forces had captured Hasyim Asy'ari-the school's leader and founder-along with some of his relatives and students. "There was a traitor among us," said Muchit Muzadi, 87, Hasyim's student, two weeks ago, recalling the incident.
Hasyim Asy'ari's group was taken by a military car to the Jombang prison. Some tim
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