Longing for Gus Dur

Annual Gus Dur memorial Lecture 2017

Source: Australia & New Zealand NU Special Branch

Inayah Wulandari Wahid, actor, poet, daughter of Gus Dur (Abdurrahman Wahid, President of Indonesiafrom 1999 to 2001) and one of the speakers at the 2017 Gus Dur Memorial Lecture at Monash University, Melbourne, talks about the enduring importance of her father’s teachings.


Why are Gus Dur’s key teachings and principles so important for contemporary Indonesia?  Why do so many young Indonesians hold Gus Dur in such high esteem? What feelings and values underpin Inayah’s poem about her father?  Inayah Wulandari Wahid describes what her father left to Indonesians.


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