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Revision with unchanged content. To understand Indonesia as the most Islamic populous country in the world is not complete without reading NU as the biggest Islamic organization. Its wis dom to adapt with a variety of sects and organizations and even with the government creates al-tas muh (tolerance) of its followers. It is not amazing, when in one of its Muktamar (conference) al-tas muh was adopted as one of the foundations which must be the spirit of the organization. In order to know how far this tolerant character applies, it could be viewed through its long history from the foundation of NU to the present. However, it is in the period of Abdurrahman Wahid´s leadership (1984-1999) that NU came to the peak alongside many important events happened in terms of the tolerance. This book attempts to deeply explore the NU tolerance vis a vis the government´s policies on Islamic affairs with specific focus on the Wahid s era.

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Dr. Phil. G. I. Marjaniis a lecturer at the Faculty of Ushuluddin and Graduate Program of Univ. Islam Negeri, Sunan Gunung Djati, Bandung, Indonesia. He completed B.A. in Comparative Religion from the Faculty of Ushuluddin, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Sunan Gunung Djati, Bandung, in 1997. From 2000 to 2005 M.A. on Islamwissenschaft (Islamic Studies) UNI-Hamburg, Germany.

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