Munawir Sjadzali dies at 78<\/p>\n
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
Former minister of religious affairs and chairman of the National
\nCommission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) Munawir Sjadzali, 78,
\ndied on Friday at Pondok Indah Hospital, after six weeks of
\ntreatment for a stroke.<\/p>\n
Munawir died at 11:20 a.m., his family said in statement.<\/p>\n
\"He died peacefully, surrounded by his entire family,\" one of
\nhis sons, Mustain, told Antara.<\/p>\n
He is to be interred on Saturday at Giri Tama Tonjong public
\ncemetery in Parung, Bogor.<\/p>\n
Born in the Central Java town of Klaten on Nov. 7, 1925,
\nMunawir served two terms as religious minister between 1983 and
\n1993 under Soeharto.<\/p>\n
Soeharto also appointed him a member of the Supreme Advisory
\nCouncil for the 1993-1998 period and chairman of Komnas HAM in
\n1996, replacing the late Ali Said.<\/p>\n
Prior to his ministerial appointment, Munawir was a career
\ndiplomat who had been posted in Washington, Sri Lanka and London
\nas a senior diplomat and as ambassador to the Arab Emirates,
\nBahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n
Munawir was also known as a scholar on Islam and was a post-
\ngraduate lecturer at the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic
\nUniversity (UIN), which awarded him with an honorary doctorate in
\n1994. He had traveled abroad in his academic capacity, and was a
\nvisiting lecturer at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill
\nUniversity, Canada, and at Leiden University in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n
He published several books on Islam, including Can Indonesia
\nAdopt Islam as a Foundation and Islam and State Administration.<\/p>\n
He was bestowed several medals for his contributions from the
\nIndonesian as well as foreign governments, including the Great
\nGordon Merit from Qatar, Medallion of the Order of Kuwait and the
\nOrder of the Yugoslav Flag with Golden Wreath.<\/p>\n
Munawir is survived by his wife and six children.<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/munawir-sjadzali-dies-at-78-1447893297", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }