Haedar Nashir elected as new Muhammadiyah chairman

JAKARTA. Sociologist Haedar Nashir has been elected as the new Muhammadiyah chairman for the 2015-2020 period, replacing Din Syamsuddin.

Haedar won the post during a closed meeting of the 13 new members of the Muhammadiyah central executive board (DPP) at the venue of the organization’s 47th muktamar (national congress) at Makassar Muhammadiyah University (Unismuh) on Thursday evening.

In the meeting, Abdul Mu’thi was elected as the Muhammadiyah secretary general.

Kompas.com reported that the selection process of the new Muhammadiyah chairman and secretary general ran very smoothly, taking less than 10 minutes.

“The consultation meeting has proposed Haedar Nashir as the new Muhammadiyah chairman. Can we agree on this?” said Dahlan Rais, who led the congress’ eighth plenary meeting.

“Yes, we all agree,” said the meeting participants.

The handover of the Muhammadiyah executive leadership is scheduled to be held at the congress’ twelfth plenary meeting, which will start at 10 a.m. local time on Friday.