[Fred Nerks]

Ann Soetoro maintained close connections with Subud and her own religious beliefs match those of the Subud to a tee. Janny Scott’s book, A Singular Woman, provides a unique insight into Ann’s religious beliefs, which tend more to Subud beliefs than her own Unitarian upbringing. First, Ann Soetoro encountered Subuh members while working for the Institute for Management and Education and Development, while under a grant from the Ford Foundation, in 1971. She hired members of the Subud, who lived in the International Subud Center compound in the Jakarta suburb of Cilandak, to teach intensive courses in business English. Second, given her residence in the north coast Java port city of Semarang, Bapak’s hometown and base, from 1978 to 1980, it is inconceivable that Ann Soetoro was unaware of Bapak and his movement.

Third, Bapak and his Subud followers were well-entrenched at the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii, where Ann Dunham Soetoro met her Kenyan and Indonesian husbands.

Even Kenya was not unknown to Subud missionaries. Subud conversion missions set out from Indonesia in the early 1960s to Kenya, Swaziland, and Northern and Southern Rhodesia.

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isn't that interesting...

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[TADSLOS]

This just gets curiouser and curiouser.

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.subud-sica.org/index.php?hkat=7&ukat=24

Unitarian Interfaith, Muslim Professors and students at East West Centre, the entire enchilada. Crazy people.

[little jeremiah]

I wonder if Subud practices (I assume it has some kind of practices) involved chanting and incense. Remembering Kam Kuwata’s experience of seeing Zero stumbling and pale at the Dem convention, going into a room with a couple of people. Door closed, Kuwata hears “weird chanting” and smells something like incense (unless it was that drug homos take) and 20 minutes later Zero pops out looking high as a kite.