Yahya Yopie Waloni (30 November 1970 – 6 June 2025), known as Muhammad Yahya Waloni, was an Indonesian Islamic preacher of

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descent who studied comparative religion.

Biography

Waloni was born as a Christian in

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on 30 November 1970, he was the youngest of seven children. His father was a retired soldier who had sat as a member of the House of Representatives for the district in North Sulawesi. He admitted that when he was young he was rebellious and had tattoo marks on his body. He had a doctoral diploma from the Institute of Theologia Oikumene Imanuel. Waloni claimed to be a former pastor and once a lecturer at the Rector of STT Eben-Haezer. He and his wife declared the

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on 11 October 2006 at 12.00 WITA with the guidance of Komarudin Sofa, Secretary of the Nahdlatul Ulama Tolitoli Branch Executive, Central Sulawesi. In January 2022, South Jakarta Court sentenced Waloni to 5 months in prison for calling

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" (bacterial infection causing muscle spasms), and ''Roh Kudus'' (

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) as ''Roh Kudis'' (translated to English as "spirit of

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"). Muhammad Yahya Waloni died on 6 June 2025, at the age of 54.

References

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