TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Chair of the National Awakening Party (PKB) faction in the Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), Neng Eem Marhamah Zulfa, said that Indonesia’s 4th President, ...

Seven years since he passed away, Indonesia's former President Gus Dur is still a constant figure in people's minds. Some would use him as a target of hate, but many regard him as a hero, says his ...

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How to get the golden egg without disturbing the hen? This was a typical conundrum posed by Indonesia’s fourth President, the late Abdurrahman Wahid. Better known as Gus Dur, he was one of the ...

TONY EASTLEY: Abdurrahman Wahid, the man who was Indonesia's first democratically elected president, has died overnight. Better known as Gus Dur, he died in a Jakarta hospital from renal failure and ...

Indonesia can direct Australia's regional dreams or dominate its nightmares. The death of Abdurrahman Wahid is a reminder of how old nightmares have faded as Indonesia has transformed itself in a ...

Inayah Wulandari Wahid, actor, poet, daughter of Gus Dur (Abdurrahman Wahid, President of Indonesiafrom 1999 to 2001) and one of the speakers at the 2017 Gus Dur Memorial Lecture at Monash University, ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Many people are continuing Abdurrahman Wahid’s teachings in relation to tolerance and pluralism. His life is the embodiment of Indonesia’s values and principles. IN his obituary, ...

WHATEVER the time or place, Abdurrahman Wahid—Gus Dur, as everyone fondly called him—had a joke to tell. About his predecessors as Indonesia's president: “Sukarno was mad about sex, Suharto was mad ...