10 Comments on “Most Influential Muslim Leaders”

1. Pena Budaya Says:
   December 2nd, 2009 at 11:13 pm

   Hi Patung, Siti won 50 thousands Euros not 50 milions..

2. David Says:
   December 2nd, 2009 at 11:47 pm

   Great PB, the only comment this gets is a correction, thanks anyway.

3. Oigal Says:
   December 3rd, 2009 at 9:04 am

   I cannot help but think what SBY could have achieved with his huge popular support from the people. If ever any President anyway had a mandate from the common man/woman for reform and change it was he. There was (is?) the very real opportunity for SBY to go down in History as one of the great world leaders who made a difference but….

   Sadly, it would appear that he is not up to the almighty challenge involved. I mean that in a non-critical way. There is no doubt championing those reforms would involve considerable personal risk in confronting entrenched and dangerous vested interests. Not a job I would envy or desire.

   I do think though, that history will show this period as an opportunity missed at a critical juncture for Indonesia’s future as a nation and History tends to judge harshly.

4. Browser Says:
   December 3rd, 2009 at 11:18 pm

   @ Oigal: SBY got this huge popular support because he’s compromising with (almost) everyone. I believe that is why he can’t be a leader who makes a difference, as he tries to make every people (party) happy, and there are too many people with different interests.

   ===

   Before he got elected for the first time, I actually sympathized this guy (SBY), as I heard one of his quotation, saying “To make a democratic country runs smoothly, there has to be one single, major power” or something like that. Maybe, almost like a dictatorship, although I guess the word is too harsh, but that was the idea.

   Oh well, time will tell..

5. andy Says:
   December 4th, 2009 at 2:06 am

   Most influential Muslim leaders..mmmm…let me think? Osama Bin Laden internationally and in that little backward tinpot nation to my north….Abu Bakar Bashir… Well they have put Islam on the world map in a way it never has been before.

6. Burung Koel Says:
   December 5th, 2009 at 10:29 pm

   …a joint effort of the Saudi funded Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, USA…

   Sounds like a fun place to work, with lots of academic freedom, I imagine. The list of names seems to reflect the type of rigorous analysis we expect from American institutes of higher learning.

7. Achmad Sudarsono Says:
   December 11th, 2009 at 4:51 pm

   Seksi Mr. Patoengs,

   Seksi Friends,

   And why aren’t I, Indonesia’s leading poet, Ukulele player, pencak silat master and cabaret singer, on this list ? (Even that list of accomplishments is humble, you, my fans, know I am also a pole dancer and philosopher).

   Seksi Friends,

   Is there no justice on Indonesia Matters ?

   I thank you.

8. David Says:
   December 11th, 2009 at 9:42 pm

   Is there no justice on Indonesia Matters ?

   You should take your complaints to Professor John Esposito of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, USA, since it was him/them who made the list. You may well uncover a nest of anti-Achmad conspirators there…..give em hell.

9. deta Says:
   December 14th, 2009 at 8:04 am

   And why aren’t I, Indonesia’s leading poet, Ukulele player, pencak silat master and cabaret singer, on this list ?

   I don’t know, Mas Achmad, but I really hope that the next most influential muslim leader is not someone who use the picture of a cannibal as his gravatar…. We’re fed up with Islam being associated with violence, you see….

10. devilkitty Says:
    December 16th, 2009 at 5:57 pm

    I love “Mama Dedeh” she’s extremely cool :]

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