TIME Asia: Islam in Asia - A Jihadi's Scrapbook

With his long hair and rakish mustache, Habib was the image of a young, modern Muslim in the Suharto years. But an encounter with a mujahedin recruiter in the mid-80s would lead to an epiphany: How could he call himself a Muslim until he had done something for Islam? In 1986, he would leave to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan

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PHOTOS BY KEMAL JUFRI/IMAJI PRESS FOR TIME