Abdurrahman Wahid
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Abdurrahman Wahid
This is an Indonesian name; it does not have a family name. The name "Wahid" is a patronymic.
Kyai Haji
Abdurrahman Wahid
4th President of Indonesia
In office
20 October 1999 – 23 July 2001
Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri
Preceded by
Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie
Succeeded by Megawati Sukarnoputri
Born
7 September 1940
Jombang, East Java, Dutch East Indies
Died
30 December 2009 (aged 69)
Jakarta, Indonesia
Resting place
Jombang, East Java, Indonesia
Political party National Awakening Party
Spouse(s)
Shinta Nuriyah
Religion
Islam
Website
www.gusdur.net [1]
Abdurrahman ad-Dakhil Wahid (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 fall of the Suharto regime in 1998.
Abdurrahman Wahid
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Early life
Abdurrahman Wahid in his youth
Abdurrahman 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 of his five siblings, and Wahid was born into a very
prestigious family in the East Java Muslim community. His paternal grandfather,
Hasyim Asy'ari was the founder of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) while his maternal
grandfather, Bisri Syansuri was the first Muslim educator to introduce classes for
women.[2] Wahid's father, Wahid Hasyim, was involv