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Abdurrahman Wahid


 

Abdurrahman Wahid (also known as Gus Dur) (born August 4, 1940) is the President of Indonesia from 1999 to 2001, and leader of the National Awakening Party (PKB), which he founded after the fall of Suharto. He was educated in Indonesia, Egypt and Canada. He was once a widely-respected populist Muslim cleric and leader of the Nahdatul Ulama before being elected President by the Indonesian parliament. Because of serious illness and allegations of corruption, he was impeached in July 2001.

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