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Surabaya, NU Online The dispute over the publication of the book entitled "Ex-Cleric of NU Calls Shalawat and Dzikir Syirik" has increasingly made public upset, especially Nahdliyin (NU Followers). Dealing with the deviant written "babble", the Surabaya's Sunan Ampel High Institute of Islamic Studies (IAIN) would hold a scholarly meeting on coming 12 April.
Surabaya, NU Online General Chairman of the National Awakening Party’s (PKB) Advisory Board KH Abdurahman Wahid (Gus Dur) said his party wanted to uphold ’syariah’ law. "But, the syariah law to be implemented is without naming Indonesia as the Islamic country. So far I always perform Friday prayers and fast during the fasting month of Ramadhan not because the law," he told thousands of PKB members in Surabaya, East Java, on Sunday (24/2).
Surabaya, NU ONline Muslims protested in two Indonesiancities Saturday (23/2) over cartoons in Denmark portraying the Prophet Muhammad, with some calling for the artist to be put to death. "Enough is enough. They have to stop insulting Islam," said Muhammad Djabir, one of about 1,000 protesters in the mostly Muslim country's second-largest city, Surabaya.
Washington, NU Online All but a few essential diplomats at the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade are leaving Serbia as the United States piles up complaints about the Serbs’ failure to protect U.S. and other Western embassies from nationalist mobs. The State Department ordered the diplomats’ evacuation on Friday, a day after mobs attacked the embassy to protest the Western embrace of Kosovo, a Serb province, as an independent state. Diplomats’ families also were told to leave, and the State Department warned Americans to consider strongly the risks of traveling to Serbia or remaining there.
Pasuruan, NU Online A team from the National Commission for Human Rights led by the commission’s Deputy Chairman I, M. Ridha Saleh, visited Alas Tlogo village, Lekok District, Pasuruan Regency, East Timor. According to Ridha, their visiting to Alas Tlogo was for deepening the system and of the shooting by the marine officers who killed four Alas Tlogo villagers on May 30 last year.
Jakarta, NU Online Chairman of the Central Board of Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) KH Said Aqil Siradj (Kang Said) told some 25 teachers of Islamic boarding schools (pesantren) willing to participate in a short course in the United Kingdom to firmly be nahdliyin (NU followers) anywhere they are. "Please maintain NU values with its tolerance, moderation, ritual and good reputation," Kang Said told the participants at the PBNU headquarters, Jakarta, Thurday (21/2).
Jakarta, NU Online The Central Board of Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) would reportedly invite a number of ulema at its third international conference, so-called as International of Islamic Scholars (ICIS III) in Jakarta July ahead, The invitation would soon be sent to the newly independent state from Serbia. General Chairman of the PBNU KH Hasyim Muzadi made the statement at the Jakarta's PBNU headquarters on Wednesday (20/2).
Jakarta, NU Online The government of RI should immediately recognize Kosovo's independence that was declared on last Sunday (17/2). If not it is understandable to hesitate its free-active foreign policy. Former Indonesian ambassador to Lebanon, Abdullah Syarwani, told NU Online in Jakarta on Tuesday (19/2).
Karanganyar, NU Online Thousands of teachers in Karanganyar district, Central Java, staged a rally outside the local legislative body (DPRD) building Tuesday rejecting its decision to slash educational budget for 2008. Deputy Chief of the Karanganyar chapter of the Indonesian Teachers Association (PGRI) Aris Munandar said the teachers wanted local legislators to pay more attention to budget allocations for the educational sector.
Algiers, NU Online Sheikh Muhammed Sayed Tantawi, the grand Sheikh of al-Azhar in a statement on Sunday voiced support for Iran's peaceful nuclear activities. In the statement, the grand Sheikh underlined that it is the legitimate right of Iran to benefit from nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
Jakarta, NU Online The beauty of a poem is often hermetically judged by the meaning it conveys and, consequently, it's sound is considered secondary to what it represents. Thus, according to poet Sapardi Djoko Damono, a poem can easily meet its demise.
London, NU Online The organization of Indonesian Muslims staying in Britain (Kibar) is holding a two-day gathering to further strengthen relations among its members at North Manchester Jamia Mosque, Manchester, from February 16 to 17, 2008. Kibar chairman Dono widiatmoko said the gathering, which was attended by about 200 Indonesian Muslims in Britain, was aimed at fostering cordial relations among Indonesian Muslims staying in various places in Great Britain.
