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Nahdlatul Ulama ( Indonesian pronunciation: [nahˈdatʊl ʊˈlama], lit. 'Revival of the Ulama ', NU) is an Islamic organization in Indonesia. Its membership numbered over 95 million in 2021, [ 2] making it the largest Islamic organization in the world. [ 3] NU is also a charitable body funding schools and hospitals as well as organizing ...
Islam portal. v. t. e. Islam is the largest religion in Indonesia, with 87.06% of the Indonesian population identifying themselves as Muslims, based on civil registry data in 2023. [ 3 ][ b ] In terms of denomination, the overwhelming majority are Sunni Muslims; the Pew Research Center estimates them as comprising ~99% of the country's Muslim ...
Education in Indonesia falls under the responsibility of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology ( Kementerian Pendidikan, Kebudayaan, Riset, dan Teknologi or Kemdikbudristek) and the Ministry of Religious Affairs ( Kementerian Agama or Kemenag ). In Indonesia, all citizens must undertake twelve years of compulsory ...
Quraish Shihab. Muhammad Quraish Shihab ( Arabic: محمّد قريش شهاب; Muḥammad Qurayš Šihāb; born 16 February 1944) is an Indonesian Muslim scholar in the sciences of the Qur'an, an author, an Academic Scholar, and former Minister of Religious Affairs in the Seventh Development Cabinet (1998). He is the older brother of the ...
Siti Musdah Mulia in 2007. Siti Musdah Mulia (born 1958) is an Indonesian women's rights activist and professor of religion. She was the first woman appointed as a research professor at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, and is currently a lecturer of Islamic political thought at the School of Graduate Studies at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University.
General schools. According to school year 2017–18 senior secondary school (SMA) statistics from Ministry of Education, [1] in 2017, Indonesia has 13.495 SMA (almost 50-50 ratio between public and private schools) with more than 160 thousand total classrooms (around 12 classrooms per school) and 30 thousands laboratories and 11 thousands libraries, 1,6 million new/10th grade SMA students (45% ...
Became atheists. Mina Ahadi, founder of the Central Council of Ex-Muslims. Javed Akhtar, noted Indian writer and lyricist. Sarah Haider, cofounder of Ex-Muslims of North America. Ismail Kadare, noted Albanian writer. Maryam Namazie, cofounder of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain. Armin Navabi, founder of Atheist Republic, about leaving Islam.
According to the Pew Research Center in 2017, the largest Muslim population in a country is in Indonesia, a country home to 12.7% of the world's Muslims, followed by Pakistan (11.1%), India (10.9%) and Bangladesh (9.2%). [ 8][ 19] About 20% of Muslims live in the Arab world. [ 20]