

In 2001, Gymnastiar owned an independent program under a series of programs entitled Manajemen Qolbu (lit: Heart Management). He became one of the permanent performers in the program Hikmah Fajar on RCTI. In 2000, after the incorporation of radio broadcasting among DT in 1999, Gymnastiar began performing preaching on National TV. We will update Abdullah Gymnastiar parents, brother/sister & other relatives information here. In 2017, he was listed on The 500 Most Influential Muslims list.Ībdullah Gymnastiar's father name not available & mother's name unknown right now. However, Solahuddin Wahid of Nahdlatul Ulama argued that Gymnastiar’s strength lies in its sincerity. Time magazine once questioned whether he was merely a businessman who used religion as a means of profit. Ulil Abshar Abdalla of the Liberal Islam Network once called him a “Britney Spears in Islam”. His media enterprise had regular audience of more than 80 million people. Gymnastiar became popular by introducing a unique way of preaching by theatrical style with practical messages of Islamic propagation that can be commonly applied to everyday life.Īt the peak, he had a substantial number of followers, with several political parties nominating him as vice-president nominee and this scored approval rating of 91%. Yan Gymnastiar (born January 29, 1962), better known as Abdullah Gymnastiar or Aa Gym (lit: elder brother Gym), is an Indonesian Islamic preacher, singer, author, businessman and founder of the Da’arut Tauhiid Pondok Pesantren in Bandung. Abdullah Gymnastiar is a famous Preacher, who was born on Januin Indonesia.
