Abdurrahman wahid biography examples

President of Indonesia from 1999 to 2001

In this Indonesian name, there is no family name.

Biografi Gus Dur; The Authorized Biography Of Abdurrahman Wahid

The name Wahid is a patronymic.

Abdurrahman Wahid (AHB-doo-RAHKH-mahn wah-HEED; néad-Dakhil,^[2][3] 7 September 1940 – 30 December 2009), more colloquially known as Gus Dur (listen^ⓘ), was an Indonesian politician and Islamicreligious leader who served as the fourth president of Indonesia, from his election in 1999 until he was removed from office in 2001.

A long time leader within the Nahdlatul Ulama organization, he was the founder of the National Awakening Party (PKB). He was the son of Minister of Religious AffairsWahid Hasyim, and the grandson of Nahdatul Ulama founder Hasyim Asy'ari. Due to a visual impairment caused by glaucoma, he was blind in the left eye and partially blind in his right eye.

He was the first (and to date only) president of Indonesia to have had physical disabilities. The name Abdurrahman Wahid means "Servant of M Abdurrahman Wahid - Wikipedia QUNOW