Vox Hunt: Past or Present

Show us a picture of your all time favorite President.

Gus Dur

Gus Dur aka Abdurrahman Wahid, the 4th President of Indonesia. He is a Muslim leader but he's not fanatic and he welcomes people from any race and religion. He treated us all the same. FYI, one has to be a native Indonesian and a Muslim to be the President of Indonesia. It's unfair actually, but anyway it's somehow understandable as Indonesia has the biggest Muslim population in the world.

Gus Dur only reigned as the President for less than 2 years, but he's quite a phenomena. I've never heard that a blind man can be the President of any country in the world, but Gus Dur. Well, he's only half-blind, though. He's also very intelligent. He has great sense of humor, humble, and during his reign, Christians didn't find significant problems to build churches. He attended Christmas celebrations, Buddhist and Hindu events, he just loved all of his people.

Here's a quote from him:

All religions insist on peace. From this we might think that the religious struggle for peace is simple ... but it is not. The deep problem is that people use religion wrongly in pursuit of victory and triumph. This sad fact then leads to conflict with people who have different beliefs.