Indonesian Journalists - Abdurrahman Wahid, Ayu Utami, Adam Malik, Abdurrahman Baswedan, Hamka, SOE Hok Gie, Ahmadun Yosi Herfanda (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Abdurrahman Wahid, Ayu Utami, Adam Malik, Abdurrahman Baswedan, Hamka, Soe Hok Gie, Ahmadun Yosi Herfanda, S. K. Trimurti, Achdiat Karta Mihardja, Mochtar Lubis, P. K. Ojong, Goenawan Mohamad, Budi Putra, Abdul Muis, Sya'diah Syeh Marhaban, Abi Kusno Nachran, Djamil Suherman, Satrio Arismunandar, Soe Tjen Marching, Sariamin Ismail, Joesoef Isak, Herawati Diah, Rohana Kudus, Ali Akbar Navis, Yusril Djalinus, Marco Kusumawijaya, Njoo Han Siang, Ani Idrus. Excerpt: Abdurrahman Wahid, born Abdurrahman Addakhil (7 September 1940 - 30 December 2009), colloquially known as .), was an Indonesian Muslim religious and political leader who served as the President of Indonesia from 1999 to 2001. The long-time president of the Nahdlatul Ulama and the founder of the National Awakening Party (PKB), Wahid was the first elected president of Indonesia after the resignation of Suharto in 1998. Like many Indonesian names, "Abdurrahman Wahid" does not contain a family name. The name "Wahid" is patronymic. His popular nickname Gus Dur, is derifed from Gus, a common honorific for a son of kyai, from short-form of bagus ('handsome lads' in Javanese language); and Dur, short-form of his name, Abdurrahman. Abdurrahman Wahid in his youthAbdurrahman ad-Dakhil Wahid was born on the fourth day of the eighth month of the Islamic calendar in 1940 in Jombang, East Java to Abdul Wahid Hasyim and Siti Solichah. This led to a belief that he was born on 4 August; instead, using the Islamic calendar to mark his birth date meant that he was actually born on 4 Sha'aban, equivalent to 7 September 1940. He was named after Abd ar-Rahman I of the Umayyad Caliphate who brought Islam to Spain and was thus nicknamed "ad-Dakhil" ("the conqueror"). His name is stylized in the traditional Arabic naming system as "Abdurrahman, son of Wahid." He was the firstborn out...