Nahdlatul Ulama, with 94 million members the world’s largest Sunni Muslim movement, is bent on reforming Islam. The powerful Indonesian conservative and nationalist group that operates madrassahs or religious seminaries across the archipelago has taken on the ambitious task of reintroducing ijtihad or legal interpretation to Islam as it stands to enhance its political clout with its spiritual leader, Maruf Amin, slated to become vice president as the running mate of incumbent President Joko Widodo in elections scheduled for next April.

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The suspect is the firebrand cleric who helped organise rallies against Jakarta's Christian former governor for insulting the Koran

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Muslim protesters demand the arrest of Jakarta's governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, a Christian accused of insulting the Quran

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