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Sidoarjo, NU OnlineSidoarjo Regent Win Hendrarso demanded Monday that Lapindo Brantas Inc., which owns the gas exploration well that has spewed out a torrent of hot mud since May 29, stop disposing of the mud into Porong River. The regent said the company did not have the necessary permission from the regional administration and State Minister for the Environment Rachmat Witoelar.
Yogyakarta, NU OnlineAn Yogyakarta Islamic boarding "pesantren" school held special prayers to mark the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack overnight Sunday (10/9), with students and staff expressing hope that better understanding among religions will lead to peace. Attended by dozens of students and teachers, the Pesantren Nawaese's "Prayer Night to Commemorate Sept. 11" began in the late afternoon on the Opak River bank in Wukirsari village, Bantul regency.
Jakarta, NU OnlineHundreds of foreign non-governmental organizations from 37 countries would reportedly conduct an anti-IMF seminar in the Indonesia industrial island of Batam on September 15-17 ahead following the annual meeting of International Monetary Fund (IMF) on September 19-20 in Singapore. The equal forum is aimed at criticizing the policies campaigned by the IMF. According to Deputy Director of the International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development (INFID), Dian Kartika Sari, one of the important agendas of the forum is to protest the location of where the IMF annual meeting held in.
Vienna, NU OnlineThe top Iranian nuclear negotiator and the EU foreign policy chief said they would hold another meeting this week after having made progress in last-ditch talks at the weekend to avert UN sanctions over Tehran's uranium enrichment. But the Iranian ambassador to the UN nuclear watchdog in Vienna denied reports Sunday that Iranian negotiator Ali Larijani had proposed suspending uranium enrichment for up to two months, in his talks with EU foreign policy representative Javier Solana.
In line with the lustrous modernization, the stigmatization of the yellow books is now strongly increased. They were regarded as unsystematic, old-fashioned, and conservative. Even there have been some trying to degrade them through a mislead survey as carried out by numbers of the Jakarta’s State Islamic University (UIN), saying that the pesantren books were considered as source of terrorists. The incessant propaganda of modernization has not made NU circles and Islamic boarding “pesantren” schools put aside the yellow books that were regarded as their powerful intellectual treasure. The presence of a web site of yellow books managed by Nahdlatul Ulama Special Branch Board (PCI NU) of Japan has, admitted or not, given a fresh nuance for readers of yellow books. These are now entering a cyber world as ultramodern realm. So, any works provided (from ulumul Qur’an/science of the Qur’an, science of exegesis, science of prophet tradition, fiqh/jurisprudence, tasawuf/Gnostic) can be freely opened and even downloaded by anyone. She/he can easily access trough the site. She/he need not go to libraries, pesantrens, and clerics.
Surabaya, NU OnlineIndonesia’s Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said on Friday (8/9) that her department would develop health posts at Islamic Boarding “Pesantren” Schools (poskestren) throughout the country. “It (poskestren) would be such a national program, (the establishment of ) the 200 health posts to pesantrens in East Java has remained an elicitation. Next, it would be replicated in pesantrens throughout Indonesia,” Fadilah said.
Sidoarjo, NU OnlineLegal and environmental activists are threatening to take the government and Lapindo Brantas Inc. to court unless there is quick settlement of compensation for thousands of mudflow victims in Sidoarjo, East Java. The Foundation of the Indonesian Legal Aid Institute (YLBHI) and Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) set a week's deadline for them to provide "concrete action", or they would sue.
Yogyakarta, NU OnlineThe government should not consider the mounting price hike of the farmer rice as a reason to support its plans to import rice next month. The price hike of the farmer rice understandably caused by the previously raising fuel price should be a reasonable argument. The statement above was said by Vice Chairman of the Nahdlatul Ulama Regional Board of Yogyakarta, KH Maksum to NU Online on Wednesday (6/9). The fuel price hike admitted or not has caused all of the farmers’ necessities increase, such as seed price, tractor, fertilizer and so forth.
Jakarta, NU OnlineThe country’s largest Muslim organization, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) urged here on Tuesday (5/9) the government to immediately divert Lapindo huge and hot mudflow pouring out of an exploratory oil well to sea. General Chairman of the Central Board of Nahdlatul Ulama, KH Hasyim Muzadi expected the authorities to be tough in taking necessary actions to avoid a major disaster and also must be transparent in giving locals accurate information on the mudflow.
Jakarta, NU OnlineGeneral Chairman of the Central Board of Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU), KH Hasyim Muzadi called for nahdliyin (NU followers) to be aware of the idea of Islamic state (khilafah Islamiyah) as driven by radical Islamic groups. He suggested that the idea is not a religious movement but called as a political movement. “Islamic state is absolutely a political movement, not religious one for it strongly focuses on political aspects than religious ones (ubudiyyah). What it focuses is that the system of governance, not on how to establish such madrasa (schools), mosques, and create people’s prosperity, and so on,” said Hasyim while meeting figures of Preaching Institution of Nahdlatul Ulama (LDNU) at the PBNU Building, Jalan Kramat Raya 164 Jakarta, Tuesday (5/9).
Tehran, NU OnlineMajlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel said here Monday completion of construction of Bushehr atomic powerplant on time will contribute to the promotion of future cooperation between Iran and Russia. According to majlis Media Department, Haddad-Adel in a meeting with the Head of Russia's Supreme Court Vicheslav Lebedov called Bushehr atomic powerplant as a symbol of friendly cooperation between the two countries.
Jakarta, NU OnlineNumbers of East Java’s NU clerics have really got upset over the indolence of the government to handle The site of the mudflow disaster in Porong, Sidoarjo, East Java. Several days ago they met the vice president Jusuf Kalla reporting the disaster. They also met members of House of Representatives here on Monday (4/9) to urge the government to settle such emergency situation in the mudflow-inundated areas. “It’s not important to debate whether (the mudflow) would be diverted to sea or where. The important thing is that the people should be saved following the rainy season ahead,” said Chairman of East Java’s Nahdlatul Ulama regional board Ali Maschan Moesa.
