MUI se-Madura tertanggal 14 juli 2008 memberlakukan fatwanya yaitu melarang umat Islam untuk golput baik dalam pemilihan Gubernur, Legislatif ataupun Presiden. MUI beralasan karena memilih pemimpin hukumnya adalah wajib, maka golput jelas diharamakan. Demikian juru bicara hasil pertemuan MUI se Madura KH A Shafraji di Sumenep menyampaikan. Berbeda dengan MUI se-Madura, justru Gus Dur yang memiliki
Dari pilkada Jatim membuktikan, Calon gubernur dukungan Gus Dur pasangan Achsan tidak mendapat suara yang signifikan. Secara sederhana, hal ini telah membuktikan bahwa pengaruh Gus Dur sudah tidak menjadi faktor utama dalam pilkada Jatim. Seperti Pilakada yang telah dilakukan di Pasuruan kemarin, pasangan “Jujur” dukungan Gus Dur juga kalah, padahal selama ini pasuruan merupakan basis masa pen
Former president Abdurrahman Wahid or popularly known as Gus Dur has thanked President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for the arrest of Islam Defenders` Front (FPI leader Habib Rizieq Shihab. "And I will be more grateful if FPI is dissolved," Gus Dur said at a press conference here on Thursday. Also present at the press conference were Rev Nugroho Tjahjadi, Romo (Father) Beny Susetyo, Wahid Institu
Tadinya, aku lagi nyari referensi masa kecilnya Barack Obama (yang lagi gencar-gencarnya bersaing untuk menuju orang nomor satu di Amerika Serikat) saat di Indonesia dulu di Google. Eeeh.. malah nyasar ke website-nya Om Wimar Witular – www.perspektif.net – yang lagi mbahas Obama di mata Gus Dur, dan ditayangkan ANTV Senin, 26 Mei 2008.Terus terang aku nyesel nggak bisa nonton tayangan tersebut
03/05/2008 17:57 (PKB)
Sejumlah kiai gagal membujuk Gus Dur untuk menghadiri Muktamar Luar Biasa PKB kubu Muhaimin Iskandar. Para kiai itu sempat menemuinya di kantor PB Nahdlatul Ulama di Jakarta, namun Gus Dur menolak melanjutkan pembicaraan.
Pengantar Unik bahkan ajaib, namun selalu relevan dengan kata kreatif apabila kita berbicara mengenai karakter Gus Dur. Cara pandang dan sosok beliau yang belum ada duanya di Indonesia, mungkin telah menjadikannya sebagai manusia paling heboh. Entah beliau memilih menjadi berbeda atau tidak nyaman menjadi biasa, yang pasti beliau telah banyak memberi inspirasi bagi pemikiran yang lebih kreatif untuk kemajuan bangsa.Gus Dur yang dibesarkan dalam keluarga intelektual religius Islam (NU) telah banyak mengenyam pengalaman dari studi keIslamannya. Beliau pernah bergaul dengan tokoh-tokoh Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta ketika masih bersekolah di Krapyak, menamatkan kuliah di Universitas Al Azhar Mesir, kemudian ke Universitas Baghdad Iraq, dan terakhir di Universitas McGill Kanada untuk pengkajian Isl
Gus Dur declares readiness to become presidential candidate
Banjarmasin - Former President Abdurahman Wahid popularly known as Gus Dur on Sunday afternoon at the Hassanuddin stadium of Banjarmasin declared himself as presidential candidate who will join the 2009 presidential election.
“In his declaration, Gus Dur believed that the people of Indonesia need a leader with courage, sincerity [...]
It was none other than former Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid who led police to the arrest of Datuk Vijayeswaran S. Vijayaratnam. Abdurrahman, affectionately known as Gus Dur, had known of Vijayeswaran during his term in office from 1999-2001.Lawyer Ikhsan Abdullah told the New Straits Times that the Malaysian and his partners had met the former president with the offer to mint gold coins bearing the pictures of Gus Dur and his grandfather."But Gus Dur never allowed it," said Ikhsan, who is the former president’s counsel."Despite being turned down by Gus Dur, the businessmen allegedly solicited US$2 million (RM7.2m) from NU followers for the coins," Ikhsan said."But the coins were never produced."The followers then sought Gus Dur’s help. It is, however, not known if police reports were lodged against Vijayes- waran and his partners."The former president has very good intelligence. Last week, he was informed that the businessmen were in town," Ikhsan said.Earlier
[jarar siahaan; bataknews; humor]
Dari semua Presiden Indonesia, Gus Dur adalah yang paling kukagumi. Selain demokratis, dia juga humoris, dan tidak bengis. Mungkin dia satu-satunya presiden di dunia yang memakai sandal dan sarung di istana negara. Memang, sungguh presiden yang praktis. His …! Salah, hus …!
ormer president Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur) said here on Sunday the disasters that struck the country recently were not related to the government or one`s leadership."Disasters had nothing to do with politics," he said after opening a Nationalist Political Academy launched by the National Awakening Party (PKB).Gus Dur, who is general chairman of the party`s advisory board, made the statement in response to views in circulation in the public connecting the disasters with the leadership of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.He said those views were irrational, but and had spread in the public, so that many people may believed them.
