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27 September 2019

His Excellency
Pak Dr Anies Baswedan
Governor of Jakarta

Assalamualaikum Wr. Wb.

Your Excellency,

Humble Request for Courte§y Meeting

I still remember with great fondness and appreciation your kind gesture in meeting students from the
University Scholars Programme of the National University of Singapore. The students took away with them
a number of very useful points and pertinent advice (please see appended two photographs of the event).

2. I am writing however on another very important matter. I would like to request for His Holiness
Dr Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin Saheb to pay you, Pak Anies a courtesy call sometime between 6 and 15
October 2019. His Holiness is the leader of 1.5 million Dawoodi Bohras worldwide, which is a Muslim
community of traders that hail from the state of Gujarat in India. Dawoodi Bohras were once Hindus back
in the 12" century before they converted to Islam, and as such, the Dawoodi Bohras are a community that
has always helped to forge unity beMeen Hindus and Muslims. There are also a number of Dawoodi
Bohras who are Arabs in origin (sometimes called at-mkarma), and they are primarily resident in Yemen.

3. The earliest Dawoodl Bohras in Indonesia can be traced back to the 1880s. Around 900 of them
reside in Indonesia, many of whom are in Bali where there is a mosque which is over 100 years old. The
second biggest Dawoodi Bohra community is domiciled in Jakarta, followed by Surabaya, Palu, Makassar
and Surakarta. From very early on, Dawoodi Bohras have been active contributors to Indonesia’s domestic
economy and society through community service and philanthropy. The Dawoodi Bohras are a relatively
affluent and educated law-abiding community, no matter where they reside, including in Indonesia. The
Dawoodi Bohras in Indonesia are both good Muslims and good citizens of the country.

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4. When His Holiness visits a country, he is accorded either a status of a state guest or a WIP guest.
By virtue of his status, His Holiness would be accorded courtesy meetings with world leaders. These have
included Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of the UAE His Highness Sheikh Mohamed
Al Maktoum, President of Tanzania John Magufuli, President of Kenya Uhuru Xenyatta, President of
Uganda Yoweri Museveni, Emir of Kuwait His Highness Sabah AI-Ahmad AI-Sabah, King of Bahrain His
Majesty King Hamad Al Khalifa, former Mayor of Houston Annise Parker, Chief Minister of Gujarat, Vijay
Rupani, Chief Minister of Sindh Syecl Murad Ali Shah, Mayor of Karachi Wasim Akhtar, former Chief
Minister of Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Sultan of Selangor in Malaysia, Sultan Sharafuddin
Idris Shah Al-Haj, Prime Minister of Pakistan lmran than, President of Egypt Abdel Fattah eI-Sisi, President
of Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisena, Prime Minlster of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe, President of Pakistan
Dr Arif Alvi, former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams, former Mayor of London and now Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson, the royalty in the United Kingdom, namely Her Majesty,
£tueen Elizabeth II and Charles, the Prince of Wales, and President of Singapore Halimah Yacob.

5. Among the sustainable social causes initiated by His Holiness include saving the environment by
curbing and eventually banning the use of plastics, planting more trees, saving the sparrows and reducing
food wastage; redeveloping a number of impoverished and sometimes neglected areas in South Asia and
East Africa so as to improve health, hygiene, and sanitation; building infrastructures so as to facilitate
connectivity and movement of people and goods and services; renovating dilapidated mosques and
building new ones all over the world, delivering free healthy home-cooked meals to households that are
living below the poverty line especially in South Asia and East Africa, but also elsewhere so as to play a
pivotal role to reduce global hunger; and lastly but still importantly, promoting interfaith dialogue and
intercultural communication worldwide by propagating the message of peace and stability, unity in
diversity, moderation as an antidote to extremism, plurality in religion, and multiculturalism.

6. As a philanthropist, His Holiness has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to innumerable

causes. These include contributing to humanitarian disaster and relief funds, a National Kidney Fund of
Sri Lanka to improve welfare and preventive care for patients impacted by Chronic Kidney Disease, Long
Live Egypt Fund to boost investment in the country, the Presidents Challenge in Singapore to as to help
those who are underprivileged, needy and less fortunate in society, and an interest-free loan fund for the
Dawoodi Bohras so as to avoid being burdened with paying off interest for the rest of their lives.

7. Befitting his status as a world ambassador of peace and a global philanthropist, His Holiness serves
as Chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim University in India, is named one of the 500 Most Influential Muslims
every year from 2014 to 2019, awarded Grand-Croix de Ceuxieme Classe (Legion of Honour), presented
the Key to the City of Colombo in Sri Lanka, awarded the Kenyan Elder of the Order of the Golden Heart,
conferred the honorary doctorate by the University of Karachi, presented the Key to Moshi — the Land of
ttilimanjaro in Tanzania, conferred the title of Sultan (Xing) as the leader of all Dawoodl Bohras by the
Government of India, presented the Key to the City of Houston in the United States, invited as a special
guest for the inauguration ceremony of the new Suez Canal, presented the Key to Karachi in Pakistan,
conferred the G)obat Peace Award in India, and was bestowed the honour of having a new species of
Orchid named after him in Singapore called the Dendrobium HH Dr Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin Saheb.
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