Abdurrahman Wahid

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Abdurrahman Wahid

Abdurrahman Wahid (born August 4, 1940 in Jombang on Java , Indonesia , † December 30, 2009 in Jakarta ), also known as Gus Dur , was an Indonesian politician and president from 1999 to 2001.

Political career

Wahid's grandfather was a well-known Muslim leader around 1900, and his father Wahid Hasjim was Minister of Religion in the first Sukarno government in 1945 . Wahid studied Islamic law, Arabic studies and literature in Cairo and Baghdad . In 1971 he returned to Indonesia.

In Indonesia he was involved in the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) founded by his grandfather , a decidedly anti-fundamentalist Islamic organization with more than 30 million members. In 1984 he became chairman of the NU. In April 1991 he founded the Democracy Forum in opposition to President Suharto . In July 1998 he founded the National Awakening Party (PKB) , which became the third largest force in the 1999 parliamentary elections.

After Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie refused to run again, Wahid was surprisingly elected president by the People's Consultative Assembly on October 20, 1999 with 371 votes, while the winner of the parliamentary elections Megawati Sukarnoputri received only 313 votes. This made him the first freely elected President of Indonesia.

In 2007 Wahid organized a Holocaust conference in Indonesia. The conference was intended as a counter-event to the 2006 Holocaust denial conference in Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadineschad .

Corruption allegations

On July 23, 2001, Wahid was dismissed from the People's Consultative Assembly for incompetence and involvement in financial scandals, which he had previously rejected. His successor was Megawati Sukarnoputri , the daughter of the first Indonesian President Ahmed Sukarno.

literature

  • Arndt Graf, Johanna Pangestian-Harahap (eds.): Laughing with Gus Dur - Islamic humor from Indonesia. Mizan Pustaka: Bandung & Abera Verlag: Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-934376-74-6 .

Web links

Commons : Abdurrahman Wahid  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Former Indonesian President Wahid dies . BBC News. December 30, 2009. Retrieved July 3, 2010.
  2. ↑ Indonesia conference denounces Holocaust denial . Reuters.com. June 12, 2007. Retrieved July 3, 2010.
  3. ^ Indonesia's President Wahid deposed . Berlinonline.de. July 24, 2001. Retrieved July 3, 2010.
  4. ↑ Corruption allegations rejected: Indonesia: Wahid refuses to resign . Rp-online.de. February 2, 2001. Retrieved July 3, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Wahid, Abdurrahman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indonesian politician, president
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Jombang in Java , Indonesia
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 2009
Place of death Jakarta