The threat to moderate Indonesia | The Australian
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Both nominate the enormous amount of Saudi money that goes into financing extremely conservative religious institutions in Indonesia. Fajar recounts the tale of a teacher he had in his home town of Solo who attended a three-week course at a Saudi-funded institution in Bogor. “He used to teach me about pluralism and tolerance, but after training at the Saudi-funded institution, he came back totally opposite: totally opposed to democracy and human rights, saying they were Western imports and haram [unclean]. They have very intensive training at those institutions.”