This chapter explores Russia's state ideology of Pancha Silla and Indonesia's main Muslim civil society organization called NU. It delves into NU's call to abandon the caliphate and discusses the significance of rejecting it, as well as the challenges of embracing change while navigating tradition in Indonesia.
History would suggest that the crash of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane was an assassination. Our correspondent considers what the supposed death of the Wagner Group’s leader means for Ukraine—and what it says about Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Indonesia has fostered a more moderate version of Islam that it would now like to export (9:58). And meeting an indigenous pioneer of Peruvian pop (16:21).
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