JAKARTA. Senior cleric Ma'ruf Amin had been chosen as chairman of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) for 2015 to 2020 following a national assembly in Surabaya, East Java, on Thursday. Ma'ruf was recently elected as the rais aam (supreme leader) of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) in early August. Other newly elected officials at the MUI include Anwar Abbas as secretary general, Slamet Effendy Yusuf and Yunahar Ilyas as deputy chairmen and Amani Lubis as general treasurer.
Ma'ruf Amin new MUI chairman
JAKARTA. Senior cleric Ma'ruf Amin had been chosen as chairman of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) for 2015 to 2020 following a national assembly in Surabaya, East Java, on Thursday. Ma'ruf was recently elected as the rais aam (supreme leader) of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) in early August. Other newly elected officials at the MUI include Anwar Abbas as secretary general, Slamet Effendy Yusuf and Yunahar Ilyas as deputy chairmen and Amani Lubis as general treasurer.