Abdul Wahid Hasyim (1 June 1914 – 19 April 1953) was the first Minister of Religious Affairs in the government of President

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of Indonesia, a post he held in 1945, and from 1949 to 1952. He was the son of

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founder

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and went on to lead the organization. In the future his son,

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, also held the same office in NU, and later was elected as 4th

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in 1999. One of the main roads in central Jakarta, Jalan Wahid Hasyim, is named after him.

Early life

Wahid was born in 1914 as a child of

and one of his wives, Nafiqoh. Both Asy’ari and Nafiqoh hailed from ulema families in

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. Wahid is Asy'ari's first-born male and his fifth child. He spent most of his childhood in Jombang, which included attending a

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that his father founded, Pesantren Tebuireng. By 1926, he had finished his schooling in Tebuireng and spent two years continuing his education in various East Java pesantren as was the tradition at the time. Following his

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pilgrimage in 1932 with one his cousins, Muhammad Ilyas, Wahid spent two more years in Saudi Arabia to further his study of Islamic hadith and

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. On returning to Jombang, he made several education reforms to the pesantren his father owns, including incorporating a general education system alongside the Islamic one. His experience in

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also led him to start learning foreign languages, such as

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, and

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Personal life

Wahid married his cousin, Solehah, in 1939. He met Solehah in a wedding ceremony in the same year. From this marriage, the couple had six children:

, Aisyah Hamid Baidlowi, Salahuddin Wahid, Umar Wahid, Lily Chodijah Wahid, and Hasyim Wahid.

Death

Wahid died following a traffic accident on 18 April 1953, where the vehicle that he was riding on collided with a truck in Cimindi. His son, Abdurrahman Wahid, and Argo Sutjipto, the secretary of the central board of Nahdlatul Ulama, were also occupying the vehicle during the incident. Wahid and Sutjipto were severely injured and it took four hours before they were able to be transported to the nearest medical center, Borromeus Hospital. Abdurrahman survived the crash, but Wahid died on April 19, followed by Sutjipto the very next day.

References

5. https://www.tebuireng.co/kh-wahid-hasyim-dalam-perjalanan-panjang-kemerdekaan/

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hasyim, Wahid 1914 births 1953 deaths BPUPK Government ministers of Indonesia Indonesian Muslims Members of the Central Advisory Council National Heroes of Indonesia People from Jombang Regency PPKI Wahid family