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View all search resultsSkipping the invitation of the House of Representatives to attend King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud’s speech in its plenary meeting on Thursday, former president Megawati Soekarnoputri apparently opted to meet the Saudi Arabian king at the State Palace the same day.
For decades Wahhabism, the strict strain of Islam that promotes a literal interpretation of the Quran, has been Saudi Arabia’s predominant faith, and since the 1970s the oil-rich kingdom has been generous in sending funds to other Muslim countries to promote this conservative version of Islam.
A rally planned to be held in front of the Saudi Embassy on Jl. HR Rasuna Said in South Jakarta on Thursday was broken up after the police cornered the protesters on nearby Jl. Karet Raya beside the embassy, saying they had violated procedures.
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