All streets in the Indonesia's main resort of Bali Island were quiet Monday as residents celebrated the Hindu Day of Silence for 24 hours. During the Day of Silence, residents on the island, occupied by some 3.2 million of people are prohibited from igniting fire, carrying out any working activities, organizing entertainments, and traveling. Only traditional policemen or pecalang were allowed to walk along streets to monitor situation. They are authorized to arrest anyone, who violates those 'regulations' . Meanwhile, Elshinta radio reported that all seaports were closed Monday as no ferries were allowed to head to the island. Thousands of people, mostly migrant workers had leaved the island to have their holidays outside Bali
http://www.thejakar taglobe.com/ opinion/interloc utors-of- indonesian- islam/560447 Interlocutors of Indonesian Islam Ahmad Najib Burhani | December 08, 2012 A few months ago, the Japanese anthropologist Mitsuo Nakamura told me that studying Nahdlatul Ulama as an organization was beyond the imagination of any American scholar from the 1950s to the ’70s. But he is not the only academic to have noticed this. George McT. Kahin of Cornell University stated the same thing. Even NU-expert Martin van Bruinessen was not expecting to study NU as his primary focus when he came to Indonesia for the first time in the 1980s. During the early decades of Indonesian independence, NU was relatively unorganized and its management was largely based on the authority of religious teachers ( kyai ). Of course there were a number of scholars who studied NU-affiliated religious schools ( pesantren ) and its kyai, but not NU as an organization. Even though NU was one of the ...
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