ABDURRAHMAN Wahid, the nation’s fourth president, died on Wednesday, 30 December 2009. Gus Dur, as he was popularly known, was a leading Nahdlatul Ulama figure, an opponent of religious inflexibility and last bastion to guard the rights of oppressed minorities. Follow Gus Dur’s life story as told by Wahyu Muryadi, this magazine’s executive editor, who was head of the Protocol Bureau at the Presidential Palace during his administration.