Broadcast: 17/04/2002
Reporter: Jennifer Byrne
Abdurrahman Wahid, the former Indonesian president may have stepped down, but he still wields immense influence as a religious scholar - a leader of some 40 million Indonesian muslims. He spoke to Jennifer Byrne during a visit to Sydney where he was guest of honour at Foreign Correspondent’s 10th anniversary celebrations.
Transcript
Byrne: I’d like to talk first, not about politics but about religion – specifically about Islam, which you’ve described as a religion of peace. How then do you see what’s happening in the Middle East, and in many Arabic countries where Islam is effectively being used as a banner for fundamentalism… for suicide attacks, for war?
