How tall is Abdurrahman Wahid?

Abdurrahman Wahid's listed height was 163 cm (5'4"). He was taller than about 70% of men in Indonesia.

Where 163 cm sits among men in Indonesia

Taller than about 70% of men in Indonesia born in 1940 (average 159.6 cm).

About Abdurrahman Wahid

Abdurrahman Wahid, more colloquially known as Gus Dur, was an Indonesian politician and Islamic religious leader, born on 7 September 1940 in Jombang. He was the son of former Minister of Religious Affairs Wahid Hasyim and the grandson of Hasyim Asy'ari, the founder of Nahdlatul Ulama. A visual impairment caused by glaucoma left him blind in the left eye and roughly 80 percent blind in the right.

Wahid was a long-time leader within the Nahdlatul Ulama organization and founded the National Awakening Party. He received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for his services to democratization and human rights in Indonesia. As president he issued Presidential Decree No. 6 of 2000 on 17 January 2000, annulling an earlier instruction that had restricted public celebration of the Chinese New Year, and in 2000 he established Confucianism as the sixth official religion in Indonesia.

Wahid stood at a listed 163 cm (5'4"). He was the fourth president of Indonesia, serving from his election in 1999 until 2001, and he was the first president of the country to have had physical disabilities. He died on 30 December 2009.

Frequently asked

How tall is Abdurrahman Wahid in feet and inches? Abdurrahman Wahid was 5'4" tall, which is 163 cm, 64.2 inches or 1.63 m.

Is Abdurrahman Wahid tall for men in Indonesia? At 163 cm he was taller than about 70% of men in Indonesia born in 1940, whose average height is 159.6 cm.

Sources

Heights are as publicly listed, rounded to the nearest centimetre; listed heights for public figures are often self-reported. Biographical details adapted from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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