farewell gus dur

one of the political figure I respect most even vice versa to others is abdul rahman wahid. he was popular known as gus dur. as a former presiden of repulic Indonesia, gus dur have lots of thing make us scrathing our head or in Indonesian "pusing 7 keliling".
he was a son of KH Abdul Wahid Hashim. His father is the first aapointed minister for religious affair. gus dur is descendant of long heritage of notorious Nahdatul Ulama (NU). this is some Islamic organisation which prefer the orthodox way in determining islam.This Organisation is believe to be the biiggest Islamic organisastion in Indonesia despite their rival "Muhamadiya" (I'm Muhamadiyah Follower). I'ts believe his grandfather is the founder of this NU. so no wonder gus dur is a legend because he come from a legendary family that contribute a lot which make whats is Indonesia now. Indonesia history cant be separated from gus dur family. as early days gus dur is sent to egypt to study as he get a scholar ship. the bad thing is gus dur never finish his study as before he did in juniior high school. (he moved to yogyakarta to finish JUnior high school) what i heard and read about him he also study in us, german,netherland and france. but neither one of the university he finish the study. the famous Leiden University (Netherland)is also one of the unioversity gus dur once study in it. whwen people ask why you take so much university but never finish even one? gus dur said : I came to study to have the education and knowledge, nothing to do with finishing or not. it;s strange isn't it? is as same some one ask you how can u fail your spm and you said the paper is nonsense because to easy and not level to you. But gus dur proof his geniusity. we can track his career from just as techer for pesantren (belong to his family of course) untill became the first man in Indonesia. one of thing that i would tio share wtih all of you is his abality to speak at least 5 langgauge. while he was a president and on trip to over sea if he land in german he can deliver speech in german, also in netherland he can speak dutch. meeting with any arab respensetative in jakarta just speak arab to him. when gus dur in singapore he speak english. Theres a rumours that i heard he speak french with his family at home. the rare thing to do as president republic Indonesia before him or after him. even very rare to happen to head of country in this world. NU die hard fans is believing that gus dur is genius and have a 6 sense (nothing to do with m night shamalan)I'm not NU neither his die hard fan but i do believe he have these abilities. try to review his direct order of something with his president decision or his Pregoritif right. most of it full of polemic and arising hot issues. for example the ajonomoto case. at the time ajinomoto is found using part of pig to produce the msg. but this part from pig is not found at the end of process it;s use as catalyis. it's just like you cook vegetables and use chopboard to cut the leaves. the chopbord is not included at the end of cooking. it's the same happen to ajinomoto. Majlis Ulama Indonesia have reklease the fatwa that ajinomoto whhich certain product is haram. but, gus dur say it HALAL! nhow come? is this you call a genius? yes he is so genius. gus dur analytical thingking is far beyond our time. i figure out that gus dur have the reason to say it halal. As japan is one of the top and biiggest investor in Indonesia is hard to denying them. a million of people is depenmding on them which it's japan provide job and funding. if gus dur rule that ajinomoto haram, so aajinomoto will lost their profit a lot. imagine the factory have produce a msg enough for 2 000 000 people. where must you throw this msg. how many zillion kg of them? when this affect them so they must cut the workrs also because they have losing the profit. imagine how many japan factory and Indonesia work at that factory? so this maybe can make economic downturn became even worse. so the calming down the market gus dur incredibily pronounce its ajinomoto halal. this ijtihad is taken by 2 curcimstance. in fikh if come 2 option we must consider the most thing that will be affected to ummah. and gus dur take this kind of fikh method. of course after that ajinomoto also never use babi in any their product.
gus dur also believe to have the sixth sense. if he sit in the front of television and seems he is sleeping. he can describe what the tv programe we watch and what channel we turns to. weird right? and he also alomost completly blind. how can he knowwhat on the television show including if we change the channel while he asleep? have you seen how gur dur attending parliment session? (DPR RI) he sit and sleep! of course his eyes always shut. but without use any pen and paper to take note as his predessor did(bj Habibie always use pen and paper and smile while writing something as he heard from MP's)he know what happen even the thing never being brieffed by his assistant. the official president house are changing while gus dur ruling the country. no more heavy extra precautions as before. reporters are the one who get the benefit of this unstricness. they can easily approach gus dur without being stop by special unit of president bodyguard(pasukan Pengamanan Prsiden). president palace is no longger as mystical place to enter. gus dur put himself as the same level to others, that why people like him. unfortunately some thing go wrong. this is start when the top level kiai or described as kiai langitan is losing their faith on gus dur. to be 1st man in iindonesia one must gain suport from this certain kiai. without their support one can't be a president. this unofficial law is never writen but most of them obey this unwritten law. when they crooss thje line it's happen just like gus dur. the parliamnent impeach him. what a sad end to a president and hebecome the first president that being impeach by tje parliment.May god bless his soul.