Prominent Indonesian Muslims striding the world stage, winning prizes, and on important lists.
“The 500 Most Influential Muslims – 2009”, a joint effort of the Saudi funded Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, USA, and the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in Amman, Jordan, edited by Professor John Esposito and Professor Ibrahim Kalin, has three Indonesians in the top 50.
Just behind the Secretary General of Hezbollah in Lebanon, Seyyed Hasan Nasrallah, comes Indonesia’s first representative, striding his stage like a colossus at 18th – Dr KH Achmad Hasyim Muzadi, Chairman of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU).
Hasyim was said to be “head of an expansive network”, the 30 million member strong NU, and a “social servant”, while the NU was praised for being a “model of traditionalism”.
At 35th came Professor Dr M Din Syamsuddin, Chairman of Persyarikatan Muhammadiyah, Indonesia’s second largest Muslim organisation after NU, which was said to be focused on “social welfare”, while Din himself was a “leader of conservative shift” and a “reformist”.
Coming on strong at 48th was Abdullah ‘Aa Gym’ Gymnastiar, titled “Indonesian Preacher” and described as “Indonesia’s televangelist” and a “reformer”, but not ‘polygamist’ or ‘businessman’, said to have a
regular audience of over 80 million Indonesians, and an approval rating of close to 90%.
Other Indonesians on the list who didn’t make the top 50, alphabetically and with their listing category in brackets:
In a separate section marked off from the main list under the heading “Radicals”, which included Osama Bin Laden among its 12 honorees, came elderly firebrand preacher and former jailbird Abu Bakar Bashir.
And the top ten worldwide:
“The 500 Most Influential Muslims – 2009” also gave population figures for Muslims in the countries of the world, interestingly stating that the Muslim proportion of Indonesia’s population was 80%, or 188,176,626 people, off by 6.1 points from the 2000 census figure, and 8 points from the commonly quoted 88% figure. rissc.jo (pdf)
In another, separate, honour Siti Musdah Mulia was also named international “Woman of the Year”, or “Il Premio Internazionale La Donna Dell Anno” at a ceremony at Saint Vincent, Aosta, Italy, on November 28th.
Siti Musdah Mulia won the coveted prize for her work in opposing discrimination against women, like polygamy. Siti bested co-finalists Mary Akrami from Afghanistan, Dunia Baroud El Khoury from Lebanon, Aicha Ech-Channa from Morocco, and Guo Jianmei from China, and won a 50 million Euro prize. aostaoggi.it
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Hi Patung, Siti won 50 thousands Euros not 50 milions.. 😉