biography and thought kh. abdurrahman wahid
A. Â KH Abdurrahman Wahid or who is familiarly called Gus Dur (born in Jombang, East Java, September 7, 1940 - died in Jakarta, December 30, 2009 at the age of 69 years)
 [1] is an Indonesian Muslim figure and political leader who became The fourth President of Indonesia from 1999 to 2001. He replaced President BJ Habibie after being elected by the People's Consultative Assembly as a result of the 1999 Elections. The administration of his administration was assisted by the National Unity Cabinet.
Abdurrahman Wahid's presidency began on 20 October 1999 and ended at the Special Session of the MPR in 2001. Exactly 23 July 2001, his leadership was replaced by Megawati Sukarnoputri after his mandate was revoked by the MPR. Abdurrahman Wahid is the former chairman of the Nahdlatul Ulama Tanfidziyah (executive body) and founder of the National Awakening Party (PKB).
abdurrahman Wahid's thoughts
1. multi-colored thinkers, because his ideas are built on religious, modern and rational grounds.
2. Neotraditional, besides he criticizes the traditional system within
in the field of Islamic education, he also gave a new perspective
to the traditional system by overhauling it
Massive revolves around the modernization of pesantren, starting from
vision, mission, goals, curriculum, management and leadership
those in boarding schools must be improved accordingly
the development of the era of globalization. He also can't
fully said by Islamic modernists, because sometimes
in its logic do not use ratio corridors
3. humanist
this was proven when he was about to be ousted politically by the MPR he instead chose to resign so that no civil war ensued
4 Islamic figures who are modernist and liberalist because he is a scientist who understands modern thinking a lot
from the secular and liberal west
figure and role of walisongo
Sunan Gresik (Maulana Malik Ibrahim)
Sunan Ampel (Raden Rahmat)
Sunan Bonang (Raden Makhdum Ibrahim)
Sunan Drajat (Raden Qasim)
Sunan Kudus (Ja'far Shadiq)
Sunan Giri (Raden Paku/Ainul Yaqin)
Sunan Kalijaga (Raden Said)
Sunan Muria (Raden Umar Said)
Sunan Gunung Jati (Syarif Hidayatullah)
. Spread Islam in the land of Java
2. Teach trade
3. Establishing Islamic boarding schools to educate students in the fields of religion, trade and agriculture.
4. Adopting music as one of the propaganda media (even Sunan Bonang created a musical instrument called "Bonang" as well as some Javanese songs that breathe Islam)
