TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search results
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search resultsPPP calls members to pray for late ex-chair Suryadharma Ali
Former religious affairs minister and United Development Party (PPP) chair Suryadharma Ali died early in the morning on Thursday at the Mayapada Hospital in South Jakarta.
Change text size
Gift Premium Articles
to Anyone
Share the best of The Jakarta Post with friends, family, or colleagues. As a subscriber, you can gift 3 to 5 articles each month that anyone can read—no subscription needed!
Former religious affairs minister and United Development Party (PPP) politician Lukman Hakim Saifuddin puts flowers on the grave of fellow former minister and PPP chair Suryadharma Ali at the Miftahul Ulum pesantren (Islamic boarding school) complex in West Cikarang, Bekasi regency, West Java on July 31, 2025. Suryadharma dies on Thursday early morning in South Jakarta, aged 68. (Antara/Fakhri Hermansyah)
T
he United Development Party (PPP) has instructed its members across the country to perform the ghaib (a Muslim prayer for the deceased from afar) and communal prayers in honor of former religious affairs minister and party chairman Suryadharma Ali, who died on Thursday.
PPP secretary-general Muhammad Arwani Thomafi confirmed the directive and called Suryadharma “a highly respected and influential” figure within the party, Antara reported.
Suryadharma, who led PPP for two consecutive terms from 2007 to 2014, died at 4:25 a.m. on Thursday at the Mayapada Hospital in South Jakarta. He was 68.
While his cause of death was undisclosed, Suryadharma reportedly suffered from a stroke in recent years.
His body was laid to rest on Thursday afternoon at the Miftahul Ulum pesantren (Islamic boarding school) complex in West Cikarang, Bekasi regency, West Java, as reported by Kompas TV.
Suryadharma held several ministerial positions during his life.
