Muhammad Yunan Nasution, noted ulema, dies at 83<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Muhammad Yunan Nasution, former Moslem
\npolitician-cum-journalist, independence fighter and one of
\nIndonesia's most respected ulemas, died here on Friday aged 83.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of people paid their last respects while Yunan laid
\nin state at his home on Jl. Cipedak, Cipinang, South Jakarta, on
\nFriday night. Among those expressing condolences included
\nMinister of Religious Affairs Tarmizi Taher and Armed Forces
\nChief Gen. Feisal Tanjung, according to Republika daily.<\/p>\n
Hundreds others yesterday prayed for him at Al Azhar Grand
\nMosque and later attended his funeral at the Tanah Kusir public
\ncemetery in South Jakarta.<\/p>\n
Yunan was buried next to his first wife who died in 1967. He
\nis survived by his second wife, Amirsani, and four children as
\nwell as great number of grandchildren from his first wife,
\nNadimah.<\/p>\n
Yunan died a week after his birthday on Nov. 22, and only
\nhours after his family took him to the Jakarta Islamic Hospital
\nbecause of a fever.<\/p>\n
The illustrious Moslem leader was born in 1913 in Nopan
\nBotung, North Sumatra. In his lifetime, he was once a legislator
\nat the House of Representatives. He was also the secretary-
\ngeneral of Masyumi, an Islamic political party with great clout
\nin the 1950s, and chief editor of Pedoman Masyarakat magazine in
\nMedan between 1935 and 1940, and of Abadi daily from 1956 to
\n1960.<\/p>\n
He was also part of the Majelis Hikmah, a think tank of the
\nMuhammadiyah Moslem organization. He was also a member of the
\nIndonesian National Central Committee (KNIP), an advisory body to
\nthe president established in 1945.<\/p>\n
Yunan wrote at least 40 books on various issues, especially
\nIslam and community development. Ill health and old age forced
\nhim to stop writing in the past year.<\/p>\n
One of his famous works is a book titled Di Balik Terali Orde
\nLama (Behind Old Order Bars) which he completed when he was
\nserving time as a political prisoner at the Madiun Penitentiary
\nin East Java during the Old Order regime under the late president
\nSukarno.<\/p>\n
As did a number of Masyumi's leaders, Yunan became a political
\nvictim of the time and was jailed without due legal process.
\n(ste)<\/p>",
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