Indonesian church leader, politician Willem T. P. Simarmata dies at 68
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Willem T. P. Simarmata, Indonesian politician and moderator of the Christian Conference of Asia, died June 17 at the age of 68.
Simarmata, widely seen as one of the most influential leaders of the Asian ecumenical movement, also served as head of Indonesia’s largest non-Catholic denomination, the Batak Christian Protestant Church, from 2012 to 2016.
In a statement, Mathews George Chunakara, general secretary of the Christian Conference of Asia, called Simarmata’s death a great loss to the Asian ecumenical movement.
