Gus Dur demands apology from stations

JAKARTA: Upset by what he saw as unbalanced coverage of his activities during the recent Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) congress, Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid said on Monday he would file a complaint against Metro TV and TransTV.

Gus Dur said the television stations ran misleading stories by that states he was driven out of a room where a meeting was being held to deliberate the election of a new NU chairman.

"I was not refused entry to the room. The people inside asked me to observe the congress. The ones who ran away from the meeting were the chairs, Said Agil Siradj and Hafiz Usman," he said on the sideline of a seminar here.

The former president and a former chairman of NU, the country's largest Muslim organization, wants the television stations to run public apologies. -- JP