Indonesia\'s Participation in Koran Reading Competition in Tunis
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Indonesia will take part and compete in the first post-revolution International Koran reading competition in Tunis for five days from August 12 to 16, 2011.
Tunisian Religious Minister Laroussi Mizouri opened the event at the National Library Building conference hall in Tunis. Mizouri underlined the importance of the first international religious competition since the Tunisian Revolution early this year, and an important stage in the political life in Tunisia.
He said the international event is a re-translation of Tunisia’s cultural characteristics contributing the great Islamic values in the world’s civilization manifested in the history of Kairaouan and Ez-Zaitunah. In the Koran recitation followed by 30 participants from 21 Muslim majority countries plus Rusia and Greece, the Indonesian representative is the only participant from Asia from the Middle East.
The two categories competed in the event is memorizing the Korean and reading it including its pronunciation. The Indonesian delegate in the vent is Muhammad Nazri from North Sumatra.
He came from Tanjung Balai, Asahan, began memorising the Korean since he was a second class Junior Secondary School student. When at the IAIN (government institute for Islamic studies) in North Sumatra, Medan, the location of the campus and his house are not far from the Islamic Center in Medan, motivated him to memorize the Korean up to until the last 30 sections. In the last national Koran memorizing competition in Banjarmasin, Nazri won third prize.
Tunisian Religious Minister Laroussi Mizouri opened the event at the National Library Building conference hall in Tunis. Mizouri underlined the importance of the first international religious competition since the Tunisian Revolution early this year, and an important stage in the political life in Tunisia.
He said the international event is a re-translation of Tunisia’s cultural characteristics contributing the great Islamic values in the world’s civilization manifested in the history of Kairaouan and Ez-Zaitunah. In the Koran recitation followed by 30 participants from 21 Muslim majority countries plus Rusia and Greece, the Indonesian representative is the only participant from Asia from the Middle East.
The two categories competed in the event is memorizing the Korean and reading it including its pronunciation. The Indonesian delegate in the vent is Muhammad Nazri from North Sumatra.
He came from Tanjung Balai, Asahan, began memorising the Korean since he was a second class Junior Secondary School student. When at the IAIN (government institute for Islamic studies) in North Sumatra, Medan, the location of the campus and his house are not far from the Islamic Center in Medan, motivated him to memorize the Korean up to until the last 30 sections. In the last national Koran memorizing competition in Banjarmasin, Nazri won third prize.
