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Early December 2012 | INDONESIA MEDIA
Solo’s Catholic Mayor Receives Warm Acceptance from Ulema
Keraton Solo
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uslims, noted community leaders and members of grassroot organizations alike have graciously accepted Catholic Mayor FX Hadi Rudyatmo of Surakarta (Solo), Central Java, a move that removes the widespread perception that the city is a hotbed for sectarian and racial conflict. Even though Surakarta is known as the base for the well-known Ngruki Muslim
taman safari, Cisarua ... FroM page. 8 is just enough for you to slide down the bench and slam the person in front of you into the front of the log. As you could tell from our haggard faces, my brother and I were not expecting such a life- threatening experience until we proceeded to ride, “the Plume” again. Though we stayed for nearly the whole day, I wasn't even able to experience everything. As an advice to potential visitors make sure to come in the morning and expect to leave late in the day, since there is just so much to see and it would not be worth it for you to only experience a minuscule part of what the park had to offer. Taman Safari is the place for every member in the family. It offers the kid friendly animal rides, the adventurous life-threatening amusement rides, and the family fun for everyone during the animal shows with tigers or dolphins. Taman Safari is the zoo that everyone needs to see at least once; the surrounding scenery of the mountains and forests really make it seem like a magical, faraway place in the wild where we can all be children with our faces pressed up to the
Keraton Solo
Boarding School and an area frequently hit by anti-Chinese riots and a series of terror acts, all of Hadi’s programs in managing the city run smoothly without any resistance from the public. Black campaigns, asking voters not to choose Joko Widodo and his running mate Basuki Ahok Tjahaja Purnama — a Chinese Christian — during the recent Jakarta gubernatorial election, also got a cool response from the Surakartans.
Ahmad Dahlan, the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) Surakarta’s relation commission chairman, Mayor FX Hadi Rudyatmo of Surakarta (Solo) expressed assurance on Saturday that the terrors happening in the city recently had nothing to do with Hadi’s leadership in the predominantly Muslim municipality because similar incidents had occurred before Hadi held the mayoral post replacing Joko Widodo. Catholic Church of San. Antonius Dahlan also said that conflicts in Surakarta had been caused more by interests other than religious ones. Continued to solo’s page. 35
glass or adventurers that can experience something so incredibly amazing that we have never even dreamed of it. (si/IM) M Pictures can be viewed at Indonesia Media’s page on Facebook.
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