When Ulil Abshar-Abdalla was a teenager in Pati, Central Java, he placed first in an Arabic class held at his local madrasa. The prize was six months of tuition at the Institute for the Study of Islam and Arabic (LIPIA),…
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Arab Saudi bersetuju memberi kuota haji tambahan kepada Indonesia dengan peningkatan sebanyak lebih 40,000 jemaah haji tahun ini. Presiden Joko Widodo dalam satu sidang media khas hari ini (11 Jan) berkata, dengan itu, jumlah bakal jemaah haji Indonesia pada tahun…
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<Credits: Areefaz> On Monday 2nd of January 2017 around 7.30am, my grandmom was pushed and beaten by her helper who have worked with her since July last year. Not only that, the helper twisted n broke my grandmom’s right ankle…
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JAKARTA: Singapore’s Immigration & Checkpoints Authority on Tuesday deported an Indonesian man and woman who allegedly had plans to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Both were deported to Batam. The man, identified…
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JAKARTA (JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – A 54-year-old man living in East Java was named Slamet Hari Natal, meaning Merry Christmas, by his parents because he was born on Dec 25, 1962. “Yes, that’s my name,” the man said as…
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