Mr Hidayat Nur Wahid is the chairman of the People Consultative Assemby (MPR). He is also a founder of the Justice Party, now known as the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), a new and influential political party that aims to introduce a more progressive form of Islam in Indonesia. Hidayat, president of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) from 2000-2003, represents a party that increased its percentage of votes for the House of Representatives (DPR) by 650 percent in 2004 over 1999. Although considered an Islamist party in 1999 when its platform was based on the state imposing shari’a for all Muslims, the party dropped that plank in 2004 and ran instead on anti-corruption, transparency and public service. Although receiving only seven percent of the votes in 2004, if its rate of growth continues it will likely be a major party in the legislature in 2009 and will be in a position to field a presidential candidate by 2014 or sooner.
Hidayat was trained as a scholar, not a politician. Born in East Java and schooled at the well-known modernist pesantren in Gontor, he went on to the State Islamic Institute in Yogyakarta and the Islamic University of Madinah, Saudi Arabia, where he spent ten years between the ages of 22 and 32 in a doctorate program and on the faculty. Returning to Indonesia, he has in the last decade been a lecturer, author and leader in Islamic studies and organizations.
Immediately after taking his position as the chairman of MPR, he announced he would shun accommodation in a nearby five-star hotel, pointing out that if all legislators did the same it would save the state billions of rupiah. He also announced he will refuse to accept the state-issued official Volvo sedans. A rare character, low profile, a man of his word, he continues to do what best for Indonesia.
Hidayat was trained as a scholar, not a politician. Born in East Java and schooled at the well-known modernist pesantren in Gontor, he went on to the State Islamic Institute in Yogyakarta and the Islamic University of Madinah, Saudi Arabia, where he spent ten years between the ages of 22 and 32 in a doctorate program and on the faculty. Returning to Indonesia, he has in the last decade been a lecturer, author and leader in Islamic studies and organizations.
Immediately after taking his position as the chairman of MPR, he announced he would shun accommodation in a nearby five-star hotel, pointing out that if all legislators did the same it would save the state billions of rupiah. He also announced he will refuse to accept the state-issued official Volvo sedans. A rare character, low profile, a man of his word, he continues to do what best for Indonesia.
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