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A Congress of Women Clerics

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LIES MARCOES
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In his visit to Indonesia in early April, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani praised the one thing that he said Indonesia had that no other Islamic community in the world had: the accomplishments of its women clerics. In other countries, even if women clerics exist, their role in Islamic discourses gets little or no recognition.

Today (25/4/2017), more than a thousand women clerics, whose exact roles are loosely defined, gathered in Cirebon, West Java. They are holding the Indonesian Congress for Women Clerics (KUPI), which is decidedly not a usual event.

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