Abdurrahman Wahid

Abdurrahman Wahid , born the August 4th 1940 with Jombang (Java Is), was president of the Indonesia of 1999 to 2001.

This Moslem intellectual (it translated Sartre into Indonésien), that Indonésiens call " Gus Dur" (" Dur" like diminutive d'" Abdurrahman" , " Gus" like abbreviation of agus , Javanese honorary appellative for the Moslem monks), is an historical figure of the opposition to Soeharto.

After the resignation of this last in May 1998, its vice-president B.J. Habibie had become president. MPR (Parliament) resulting from the elections of 1999 (the first democratic ones since those of 1955) elected Abdurrahman Wahid chair. He undertakes to liberalize the political life and intellectual country and to alleviate the crisis with the Timor-Eastern . But of serious health issues (several heart attacks having left it almost blind man before even its mandate), an erratic manner judged to follow its policy, and finally suspicions of corruption, bring to its dismissal and its replacement by its vice-president Megawati Soekarnoputri.

Gus Dur is the son of Wahid Hasjim, directing of the Muslim organization Nahdatul Ulama or Nahdlatul Ulama (" rebirth of the oulémas") founded by his/her own father, Hasjim Ashari, in 1926, in reaction to the organization Muhammadiyah, created in 1912 to reform the Islam indonésien in a more orthodoxe direction.

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Official site of Abdurrahman Wahid

Map-bms: K.H. Abdurrahman Wahid

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