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Nahdlatul Ulama
Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) is an Indonesian Islamic organisation founded in 1926 by Hasyim Asy'ari and other religious scholars of East Java. It defends traditional Sunni scholarship and local religious practice, and is rooted in the pesantren boarding schools of rural Java. With tens of millions of followers it is often described as the largest Muslim organisation in the world, and its former chairman Abdurrahman Wahid became president of Indonesia in 1999.
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