{"id":2285,"date":"2021-09-20T21:24:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T21:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/crcc\/alissa-wahid-a-legacy-of-transformation-in-indonesia\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T22:45:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T22:45:28","slug":"alissa-wahid-a-legacy-of-transformation-in-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/crcc\/alissa-wahid-a-legacy-of-transformation-in-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Alissa Wahid: A Legacy of Transformation in Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            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     >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><em>This article was originally published by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaiciid.org\/news-events\/features\/legacy-transformation-alissa-wahid-and-gusdurian-network-indonesia\">KAICIID Dialogue Centre<\/a>, with the support of CRCC&#8217;s global project on <a href=\"\/topic\/engaged-spirituality\/\">engaged spirituality<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Inheriting a father\u2019s legacy is never easy \u2014 especially when that father was the first democratically elected Indonesian president in a generation.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98021 alignleft\" src=\"\/crcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2021\/09\/FOT-201701-000567-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"30%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When President Abdurrahman Wahid \u2014 popularly known as \u201cGus Dur\u201d \u2014 died in 2009, millions of people visited his grave in the remote East Javanese town of Jombang. Even now, twelve years later, the East Java Tourism Agency reports that half-a-million people visit each month.<\/p>\n<p>While president of Indonesia for only two tumultuous years, Gus Dur\u2019s legacy endures beyond his time in office. Upon his passing, people from across Indonesia\u2019s religious and political spectrums felt a deep, personal sense of loss for a much-loved humanitarian whose compassionate activism transcended religious boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>For 2017 KAICIID Fellow Alissa Wahid, 49, being Gus Dur\u2019s daughter, not to mention the granddaughter of one of the founders of Nahdlatul Ulama \u2014 which with somewhere between 40-60 million members is the largest Muslim organization in the world \u2014 it is quite the legacy to live up to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can imagine what kind of expectations I was born into,\u201d she said with a portrait of her father hanging behind her, \u201cit was this huge burden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even so, she channelled her family\u2019s legacy into pioneering an interreligious movement of her own: the Gusdurian Network Indonesia (GNI). Founded in 2010, GNI works with grassroots-level activists across Indonesia to promote interreligious reconciliation, active citizenship, democracy, and human rights.<\/p>\n<p>It is hard to measure the full extent of the organization, as they have no formal membership structure, but it has chapters in over 114 locations across Indonesia \u2014 and international chapters in places like Malaysia, the UK, Saudi Arabia, Germany, the Philippines, and Egypt. On Twitter, GNI enjoys 235,000 followers alongside Wahid\u2019s 449,300.<\/p>\n<p>As GNI\u2019s National Director, Wahid has been at the forefront of fighting for religious minorities\u2019 rights in Indonesia, promoting a vision of interreligious exchange between Muslims and non-Muslims, and seeking to build on, and extend, her forebears\u2019 legacy.<\/p>\n<h2>\u201cWho Will Protect Us?\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>For Wahid, the journey to being a public servant was not self-evident. While her sister \u2014 popularly known as Yenny \u2014 went into politics and took up the job of directing her late father\u2019s research centre (The Wahid Institute), Alissa initially shunned the public eye.<\/p>\n<p>But when her father passed away in 2009, representatives of various religious minorities came to Wahid\u2019s house to pay their respects. They also shared their struggles and asked her to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said things to me like, \u2018now that your father has passed away, who should we come to when we suffer? Who will protect us?\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn those moments, I thought back to what my father always told us \u2014 \u2018you have to realise your capacity,\u2019 he always said we could live whatever lifestyle we wanted, but we could not abandon our calling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thus compelled, Wahid founded GNI to extend her father\u2019s work and create collaborative spaces for interreligious dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>GNI\u2019s extensive network has allowed Wahid not only to promote pluralism in Indonesia on a large scale, but also to mobilise people locally to protect marginalised communities when they come under threat.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, Wahid was sipping on a latte in Starbucks when she received a notification about an attack on a West Javan village. Largely inhabited by Ahmadis \u2014 a denomination considered \u201cnon-Muslim\u201d by religious hardliners \u2014 assailants descended upon the village as part of a spate of vicious attacks across Indonesia. The Ahmadis feared for their lives.<\/p>\n<p>The message Wahid received from 500 kilometres away not only communicated the danger but expressed the hope that Gusdurians would come to their aide. Wahid dropped the latte and sprang into action, finding Gusdurians in the area and connecting them to village residents.<\/p>\n<p>The network not only responded, they formed a protective, human barrier around the village \u2014 literally standing up for the ideals of religious pluralism and freedom Wahid\u2019s father championed.<\/p>\n<p>It was a tipping point for the organization. And for Wahid. \u201cI realised then that this work isn\u2019t just nice talk,\u201d said Wahid, \u201cthis is about defending freedoms, protecting people, especially vulnerable groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>The Persistent Pursuit Of Elusive Justice<\/h2>\n<p>Since those early days, the organization\u2019s prominence, and Wahid\u2019s convictions, led her to wade back into politics. The rise of religious extremism in Indonesia worries many members of government and in recent years, they\u2019ve increasingly called on Wahid to help address the popular shift to the right.<\/p>\n<p>During her KAICIID fellowship, Wahid came to see again how influential religious leaders can be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany things can be mobilised by using religion,\u201d she said, \u201creligion can be a good thing or also misused as a tool for conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/crcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2021\/09\/DSC06025-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-98022\" src=\"\/crcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2021\/09\/DSC06025-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And so, during her fellowship, Wahid began working on government projects to advocate for more interreligious dialogue and \u201cnot only promote peace,\u201d she said, \u201cbut advance religious moderation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along with other KAICIID Fellows, Wahid saw how interreligious dialogue \u201cis really needed to get some misperceptions, misunderstandings, and prejudices out of the way so we can go ahead and think of a better world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Wahid and GNI continue to face opposition from traditionalists and hardliners in Indonesian society and government. The battles that her father fought are persistent, said Wahid, and she knows they will not go away without perseverance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t have to like the work, just focus on the result you\u2019re trying to get,\u201d said Wahid, \u201cpolitics is like dancing: One step forward, two back. Justice is elusive, but always around the corner.<\/p>\n<p>Although she admits that there is still a long road ahead, she is pleased to see how her father\u2019s ideas and legacy are not forgotten, but perhaps thriving more than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the highest levels of government, we have been talking about interfaith cooperation, about respect, about bringing a more just perspective into religious lives,\u201d said Wahid, \u201cthe real achievement will be to take that talk and establish social, physical, and psychological space where people can come together based on principles of justice and humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When all is said and done, Wahid hopes GNI\u2019s legacy will be one of long-term \u201csocial transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Recognition In Indonesia And Beyond<\/h2>\n<p>Despite setbacks, people in Indonesia and abroad have recognised what GNI has already accomplished. In 2018, GNI received Taiwan\u2019s Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award and in 2020, they were named the best social media movement by one of Indonesia\u2019s largest news agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Manjid Achmad, professor at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta who researches interreligious dialogue, said GNI and Wahid show how to promote religious pluralism and effectively protect minority rights, \u201cnot by fighting against or solving these common problems by itself, but inspiring others to solve them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Pointing to how Catholics, Protestants, Hindus, Buddhists, and others are all part of the network, Achmad said, \u201cthe more actors that are doing this, the better for Indonesia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indonesian scholar Aan Anshori and GNI member added his own personal perspective: \u201cI\u2019ve learned many things through her work: integrity, modesty, and courage, she is a spiritual leader for us, showing us the path that requires sacrifice for defending the oppressed,\u201d he said, \u201cAlissa is not only Gus Dur\u2019s biological daughter, but an ideological one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In that, Anshori said, she carries the legacy of her predecessors well.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaiciid.org\/news-events\/features\/legacy-transformation-alissa-wahid-and-gusdurian-network-indonesia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read the article at the KAICIID Dialogue Centre&#8217;s website.<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><em>Photos Courtesy of Alissa Wahid.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even so, she channelled her family\u2019s legacy into pioneering an interreligious movement of her own: the Gusdurian Network Indonesia (GNI). 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