Wahdah Islamiyah

Wahdah Islamiyah
جمعية الوحدة الإسلامية
AbbreviationWahdah
Formationlate-1980s
TypeSalafi Islamic mass organization
HeadquartersMakassar, South Sulawesi
Official language
Bahasa Indonesia
LeaderMuhammad Zaytun Rasmin
Websitehttps://wahdah.or.id/

Wahdah Islamiyah is a Salafi Islamic mass organization (ormas) based in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The organization emerged in the late-1980s and today it owns approximately 120 branches across the archipelago. Wahdah maintains an extensive cadre training system and runs more than 200 schools, including its own higher educational institutions.[1] The organization has a long history of cooperating with the local government through the provision of social welfare and religious education.[2]

  1. ^ Chaplin 2018, pp. 209, 213.
  2. ^ Chaplin 2018, p. 213.