JAKARTA - Vice President (Vice President) Maruf Amin attended the celebration of his 100th birthday (HUT) or 1 century of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU). The community organization event was held at Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII), Jakarta, Tuesday night, January 31.

The vice president arrived at the event location at around 20.00 WIB and is scheduled to give a speech as well as direction to NU. The vice president will also receive an award from the organization he grew up with.

The presence of the Vice President fulfilled the invitation conveyed directly by NU figure who is also the daughter of the 4th President of the Republic of Indonesia Abdurrahman Wahid alias Gus Dur, Yenny Wahid some time ago.

Sebagaimana informasi yang disampaikan Juru Bicara Wapres Masduki Baidlowi usai mendampingi Wapres menerima Yenny saat itu, pada acara ini Wapres akan menerima penghargaan dari NU atas perannya meningkat NU.

The vice president is Rais Aam PBNU for the 2015-2018 solemn period.

Masduki said this is the first time the NU Anniversary has given many awards to figures who have a role in raising NU.

So rais aam of all time, whoever it is, will get an award. If for example can't attend because he has died, for example, the family will attend. Likewise, the General Chairs of PBNU will be invited, including in this case the Vice President when invited there in addition to opening the event, the Vice President gets an award as a former Rais Aam PBNU," said Masduki at the time.

He said NU would give awards to certain people who contributed, for example, to the contribution of introducing NU to the international community.

NU will also give awards to Islamic boarding schools that are more than a century old, which number around 52 pesantren, such as the Sidogiri Islamic Boarding School in Pasuruan, the Annuqayah Islamic Boarding School in Sumenep, East Java, and others.

Award categories are given, namely International Category, National Figure Category, and NU Internal Category.

Also present at this event was Gus Dur's wife, Shinta Nuriyah Wahid, Chair of the Steering Committee of the Pancasila Ideology Development Agency (BPIP) as well as Chairperson of the PDI-P Megawati Soekarnoputri, General Chairperson of the Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) Executive Board Yahya Cholil Staquf, a number of ministers of the Advanced Indonesia Cabinet, and ambassadors of friendly countries.


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