Abdul Wahid Hasyim (1 June 1914 – 19 April 1953) was the first Minister of Religious Affairs in the government of President Sukarno of Indonesia, a post he held in 1945, and from 1949 to 1952.

By 1926, he had finished his schooling in Tebuireng and spent two years continuing his education in various East Java pesantren as was the tradition at the time.

[3] Following his hajj pilgrimage in 1932 with one his cousins, Muhammad Ilyas, Wahid spent two more years in Saudi Arabia to further his study of Islamic hadith and fiqh.

His experience in Saudi Arabia also led him to start learning foreign languages, such as English, German, and Dutch.

His son, Abdurrahman Wahid, and Argo Sutjipto, the secretary of the central board of Nahdlatul Ulama, were also occupying the vehicle during the incident.