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        "msgid": "gus-yahya-highlights-challenges-facing-nu-ahead-of-35th-congress-1787673071",
        "date": "2026-08-25 22:17:00",
        "title": "Gus Yahya Highlights Challenges Facing NU Ahead of 35th Congress",
        "author": "Ani Nursalikah",
        "source": "REPUBLIKA",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Politics",
        "summary": "Nahdlatul Ulama chairman Gus Yahya has outlined key challenges facing Indonesia's largest Islamic organisation ahead of its 35th Congress in Jombang. He identified shifting NU identity, organisational consolidation, the group's position in national politics, and its global role as critical issues. Gus Yahya noted that the social and cultural boundaries defining NU membership have become increasingly fluid compared to earlier generations.",
        "content": "<p>The 35th Congress of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) will take place on 27\u201330\nAugust 2026 at the Bahrul Ulum Tambakberas Islamic Boarding School in\nJombang, East Java. Ahead of the major gathering of Nahdliyin members,\nthe Chairman of the NU Executive Board (PBNU), KH Yahya Cholil Staquf,\nknown as Gus Yahya, highlighted a number of challenges facing NU in\ndetermining its future direction.<\/p>\n<p>These challenges include changes in NU identity, organisational\nconsolidation, NU\u2019s position in national politics, and its role at the\nglobal level. Gus Yahya conveyed this during a discussion event ahead of\nthe 35th NU Congress titled \u2018NU Masa Depan dan Masa Depan NU\u2019 (The\nFuture of NU and NU\u2019s Future) at the Talibuana Nusantara Foundation in\nPancoran, South Jakarta, on Monday (24\/8\/2026).<\/p>\n<p>Gus Yahya said that discussions about NU\u2019s future must begin with a\nfundamental question regarding the definition of NU. According to him,\nthe identity of NU in its early generations was relatively easy to\nrecognise even though it was not explicitly formulated.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018In the early generations, it was perhaps easier, even though it was\nnot explicitly formulated, people could easily identify what NU was,\u2019\nsaid Gus Yahya in a press release received on Tuesday (25\/8\/2026).<\/p>\n<p>According to Gus Yahya, there are now two phenomena that have made\nthe boundaries of NU identity increasingly fluid. First, the social and\ncultural boundaries between NU members and non-members have undergone\nsignificant change. He cited Gus Dur\u2019s discourse in the 1980s regarding\npesantren as a subculture, which is now considered to no longer have\nfirm social and cultural boundaries.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/gus-yahya-highlights-challenges-facing-nu-ahead-of-35th-congress-1787673071",
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