Chairman of the Islamic Organization Friendship Institute, KH Said Aqil Siroj, asked the Indonesian government to play an active role in reducing the increasingly heated conflict between Israel and Palestine. The conflict claimed lives.
Generous government scholarships have generated positive impressions of China – and even an impulse to defend its policies in the face of Western criticism.
Gus Dur always emphasized the principle that in politics there is humanity. When politics returns to its identity as a means of building common prosperity, the people will feel peace and progress.
Why bother paying taxes if the people responsible for them are going to get up to no good? That is essentially the argument used by a revered Islamic figure in Indonesia amid increased scrutiny towards filthy rich officials.